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openSUSE Leap 15.1: 2019:2396-1 Moderate: zziplib Memory Leak

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Calendar Grey October 28, 2019
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
openSUSE reveals a security patch for zziplib tackling a moderate memory leak along with an issue related to division by zero.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available.

Description

This update for zziplib fixes the following issues:

Security issue fixed:

- CVE-2018-16548: Prevented memory leak from

__zzip_parse_root_directory(). Free allocated structure if its address

is not passed back. (bsc#1107424)

Other issue addressed:

- Prevented a division by zero (bsc#1129403).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-2396=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (i586 x86_64):

libzzip-0-13-0.13.69-lp151.4.3.1

libzzip-0-13-debuginfo-0.13.69-lp151.4.3.1

zziplib-debugsource-0.13.69-lp151.4.3.1

zziplib-devel-0.13.69-lp151.4.3.1

zziplib-devel-debuginfo-0.13.69-lp151.4.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

libzzip-0-13-32bit-0.13.69-lp151.4.3.1

libzzip-0-13-32bit-debuginfo-0.13.69-lp151.4.3.1

zziplib-devel-32bit-0.13.69-lp151.4.3.1

zziplib-devel-32bit-debuginfo-0.13.69-lp151.4.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16548.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1107424

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1129403

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:2396-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1 le.

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