CVE-2018-16548 — An issue was discovered in ZZIPlib through 0

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.

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-09-05T21:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T10:24:32.976Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/gdraheim/zziplib/issues/58
• access.redhat.com — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2196
• lists.opensuse.org — http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00065.html
• lists.opensuse.org — http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00066.html
• lists.debian.org — https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00029.html