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CVE-2019-13453

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-07-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-835

Description

Zipios before 0.1.7 does not properly handle certain malformed zip archives and can go into an infinite loop, causing a denial of service. This is related to zipheadio.h:readUint32() and zipfile.cpp:Zipfile::Zipfile().

Affected products

• Zipios Project Zipios: before 0.1.7 — fixed in 0.1.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Zipios Project Zipios 0.1.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109282
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00041.html
• https://salvatoresecurity.com/fun-with-fuzzers-how-i-discovered-three-vulnerabilities-part-2-of-3/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/zipios/news/2019/07/version-017-cve-/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109282
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00041.html
• https://salvatoresecurity.com/fun-with-fuzzers-how-i-discovered-three-vulnerabilities-part-2-of-3/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/zipios/news/2019/07/version-017-cve-/

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