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alsa-2025:20838

Vulnerability from osv_almalinux

Published

2025-11-11 00:00

Modified

2025-11-19 09:20

Summary

Moderate: zziplib security update

Details

The zziplib is a lightweight library to easily extract data from zip files.

Security Fix(es):

zziplib: directory traversal in unzzip_cat in the bins/unzzipcat-mem.c (CVE-2018-17828)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinuxRelease Notes linked from the References section.

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  "published": "2025-11-11T00:00:00Z",
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CVE-2018-17828 (GCVE-0-2018-17828)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-10-01 08:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 10:54

Summary

Directory traversal vulnerability in ZZIPlib 0.13.69 allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a zip file, because of the function unzzip_cat in the bins/unzzipcat-mem.c file.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

URL

Tags

https://github.com/gdraheim/zziplib/issues/62

x_refsource_MISC

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Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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