CVE-2018-1000637
HIGHzutils < 1.8-pre2 - Buffer Overflow in zcat via Crafted Compressed File
Title source: llmDescription
zutils version prior to version 1.8-pre2 contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in zcat that can result in Potential denial of service or arbitrary code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim openning a crafted compressed file. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.8-pre2.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00016.html
Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.debian.org/904819
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/zutils-bug/2018-08/msg00000.html
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0168
EPSS Percentile
74.0%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-119
Status
published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux
8.0
nongnu/zutils
1.8 pre1
nongnu/zutils
< 1.8
Published
Aug 20, 2018
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026