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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: RHSA-2019-2159 Low: Unzip Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey August 6, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A patch update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, classified as low severity concerning the vulnerability related to buffer overflows.
An update for unzip is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The unzip utility is used to list, test, and extract files from zip archives.
Security Fix(es):
* unzip: Buffer overflow in list.c resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2018-18384)
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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service buffer overflow unzip red hat enterprise low

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18384 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.7_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: unzip-6.0-20.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: unzip-6.0-20.el7.x86_64.rpm unzip-debuginfo-6.0-20.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: unzip-6.0-20.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: unzip-6.0-20.el7.x86_64.rpm unzip-debuginfo-6.0-20.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: unzip-6.0-20.el7.src.rpm
ppc64: unzip-6.0-20.el7.ppc64.rpm unzip-debuginfo-6.0-20.el7.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: unzip-6.0-20.el7.ppc64le.rpm unzip-debuginfo-6.0-20.el7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: unzip-6.0-20.el7.s390x.rpm unzip-debuginfo-6.0-20.el7.s390x.rpm
x86_64: unzip-6.0-20.el7.x86_64.rpm unzip-debuginfo-6.0-20.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):
Source: unzip-6.0-20.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: unzip-6.0-20.el7.x86_64.rpm unzip-debuginfo-6.0-20.el7.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:2159-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2159
Issue date: 2019-08-06

Topic

An update for unzip is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service buffer overflow unzip red hat enterprise low

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1642931 - CVE-2018-18384 unzip: Buffer overflow in list.c resulting in a denial of service

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