Bug 1549862 (CVE-2017-18205) - CVE-2017-18205 zsh: NULL dereference in cd in sh compatibility mode under given circumstances
Summary: CVE-2017-18205 zsh: NULL dereference in cd in sh compatibility mode under giv...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-18205
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1570881 1570882
Blocks: 1549839
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-02-27 22:36 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:33 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: zsh 5.4
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A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the code responsible for the cd builtin command of the zsh package. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service by crashing the user shell.
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Last Closed: 2018-11-30 00:30:00 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:3073 0 None None None 2018-10-30 07:30:24 UTC

Description Laura Pardo 2018-02-27 22:36:40 UTC 
A flaw was found in zsh prior 5.3.1. There is a vulnerability when in sh compatibility mode if HOME was not set
and cd was used with no argument.


References:
https://sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/eb783754bdb74377f3cea4ceca9c23a02ea1bf58
Comment 1 Kamil Dudka 2018-03-06 14:08:24 UTC 
(In reply to Laura Pardo from comment #0)
> A flaw was found in zsh prior 5.3.1.

The commit you refer to landed (217 commits) _after_ the 5.3.1 release.
Comment 2 Kamil Dudka 2018-03-06 15:47:00 UTC 
fixed in zsh-5.3.1-7.fc26
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2018-10-30 07:30:18 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:3073 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3073
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