CVE-2018-1000637

HIGH

zutils < 1.8-pre2 - Buffer Overflow in zcat via Crafted Compressed File

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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