Bug 1422514 (CVE-2017-5979) - CVE-2017-5979 zziplib: NULL pointer dereference in prescan_entry (fseeko.c)
Summary: CVE-2017-5979 zziplib: NULL pointer dereference in prescan_entry (fseeko.c)
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-5979
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1422517
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-02-15 12:52 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2021-02-17 02:34 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-02-15 12:55:07 UTC
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Description Martin Prpič 2017-02-15 12:52:08 UTC
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was discovered in zziplib, a lightweight library for extracting data from ZIP files. An application using zziplib to process could crash when processing a malformed ZIP archive.

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http://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/02/09/zziplib-null-pointer-dereference-in-prescan_entry-fseeko-c/

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2017-02-15 12:54:10 UTC
Created zziplib tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1422517]


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