Vulnerability CVE-2018-1000637


Published: 2018-08-20

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.

Type:

CWE-119

(Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Nongnu -> Zutils 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
https://bugs.debian.org/904819
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00016.html
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/zutils-bug/2018-08/msg00000.html

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