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CVE-2018-1000637

zutils version prior to version 1.8-pre2 contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in zcat that can result in Potential denial of service or arbitrary code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim openning a crafted compressed file. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.8-pre2.

Published

2018-08-20T19:31:34.167

Last Modified

2024-11-21T03:40:17.743

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 7.8 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-119

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	nongnu	zutils	≤ 1.8	Yes
Application	nongnu	zutils	1.8	Yes
Operating System	debian	debian_linux	8.0	Yes

References

https://bugs.debian.org/904819 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00016.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/zutils-bug/2018-08/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugs.debian.org/904819 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00016.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/zutils-bug/2018-08/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)