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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-16548: Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-16548: Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/05/2018
Created
12/18/2019
Added
11/27/2019
Modified
10/01/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in ZZIPlib through 0.13.69. There is a memory leak triggered in the function __zzip_parse_root_directory in zip.c, which will lead to a denial of service attack.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-zziplib

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