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Ubuntu: USN-3699-1 (CVE-2018-7725): zziplib vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3699-1 (CVE-2018-7725): zziplib vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/06/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/10/2018
Modified
07/08/2020

Description

An issue was discovered in ZZIPlib 0.13.68. An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in zzip_disk_fread in mmapped.c. The vulnerability causes an application crash, which leads to denial of service.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libzzip-0-13

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