CVE-2018-1000637

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-08-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
Nongnu Zutils: through 1.8; 1.8-pre1

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
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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