CVE-2020-18442

Summary

CVECVE-2020-18442
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-06-18 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:19:00 UTC
DescriptionInfinite Loop in zziplib v0.13.69 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via the return value "zzip_file_read" in the function "unzzip_cat_file".

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-835

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 35 All All All
Application Zziplib Project Zziplib 0.13.69 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: zziplib-0.13.72-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: zziplib-0.13.72-1.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 2859-1] zziplib security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: zziplib-0.13.72-1.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
error: Incorrect handling of function 'zzip_fread' return value · Issue #68 · gdraheim/zziplib · GitHub MISC github.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: zziplib-0.13.72-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159485 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for zziplib (ELSA-2021-4316)
  • 178959 Debian Security Update for zziplib (DLA 2859-1)
  • 199666 Ubuntu Security Notification for ZZIPlib Vulnerabilities (USN-6298-1)
  • 239792 Red Hat Update for zziplib (RHSA-2021:4316)
  • 282400 Fedora Security Update for zziplib (FEDORA-2022-8109b472a3)
  • 282401 Fedora Security Update for zziplib (FEDORA-2022-737e44718a)
  • 354268 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for zziplib : ALAS2022-2022-162
  • 354442 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for zziplib : ALAS2022-2022-081
  • 355153 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for zziplib : ALAS2023-2023-006
  • 670733 EulerOS Security Update for zziplib (EulerOS-SA-2021-2491)
  • 750721 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for zziplib (SUSE-SU-2021:2164-1)
  • 755993 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for zziplib (SUSE-SU-2024:0970-1)
  • 940283 AlmaLinux Security Update for zziplib (ALSA-2021:4316)
  • 960254 Rocky Linux Security Update for zziplib (RLSA-2021:4316)

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