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Mageia 8 2021-0359 Critical Zziplib Denial Of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey July 20, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia has issued an upgrade for zziplib to rectify a significant denial of service flaw. Discover further details here.
Infinite Loop in zziplib v0.13.69 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via the return value "zzip_file_read" in the function "unzzip_cat_file" (CVE-2020-18442)

Summary

Infinite Loop in zziplib v0.13.69 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via the return value "zzip_file_read" in the function "unzzip_cat_file" (CVE-2020-18442).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29178

- https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2021-June/009090.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-18442

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service update critical risk zziplib Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/zziplib-0.13.72-1.mga8

Severity
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Publication date: 20 Jul 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0359.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-18442

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service update critical risk zziplib Mageia

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