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CVE-2018-16548

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-09-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-772

Description

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.

Affected products

• gdraheim zziplib: through 0.13.69

References

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

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