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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-16548: Security patch for zziplib (ALAS-2019-1357)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-16548: Security patch for zziplib (ALAS-2019-1357)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/05/2018
Created
05/08/2020
Added
04/27/2020
Modified
11/27/2024

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)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-zziplib
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-zziplib-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-zziplib-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-zziplib-utils

References

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