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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2019-2196-01 Low: zziplib Memory Leak

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Calendar Grey August 6, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Debian enhances libdb for its Stable release with minor patches addressing performance concerns related to data handling and resource allocation.
An update for zziplib 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 zziplib is a lightweight library to easily extract data from zip files.
Security Fix(es):
* zziplib: Bus error caused by loading of a misaligned address inzzip/zip.c (CVE-2018-6541)
* zziplib: Memory leak triggered in the function __zzip_parse_root_directory in zip.c (CVE-2018-16548)
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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux memory leak Low severity buffer error zziplib

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6541 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16548 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: zziplib-0.13.62-11.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: zziplib-0.13.62-11.el7.i686.rpm zziplib-0.13.62-11.el7.x86_64.rpm zziplib-debuginfo-0.13.62-11.el7.i686.rpm zziplib-debuginfo-0.13.62-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: zziplib-debuginfo-0.13.62-11.el7.i686.rpm zziplib-debuginfo-0.13.62-11.el7.x86_64.rpm zziplib-devel-0.13.62-11.el7.i686.rpm zziplib-devel-0.13.62-11.el7.x86_64.rpm zziplib-utils-0.13.62-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
Source: zziplib-0.13.62-11.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: zziplib-0.13.62-11.el7.i686.rpm zziplib-0.13.62-11.el7.x86_64.rpm zziplib-debuginfo-0.13.62-11.el7.i686.rpm zziplib-debuginfo-0.13.62-11.el7.x86_64.rpm zziplib-devel-0.13.62-11.el7.i686.rpm zziplib-devel-0.13.62-11.el7.x86_64.rpm zziplib-utils-0.13.62-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: zziplib-0.13.62-11.el7.src.rpm
ppc64: zziplib-0.13.62-11.el7.ppc.rpm zziplib-0.13.62-11.el7.ppc64.rpm zziplib-debuginfo-0.13.62-11.el7.ppc.rpm zziplib-debuginfo-0.13.62-11.el7.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: zziplib-0.13.62-11.el7.ppc64le.rpm zziplib-debuginfo-0.13.62-11.el7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: zziplib-0.13.62-11.el7.s390.rpm zziplib-0.13.62-11.el7.s390x.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:2196-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2196
Issue date: 2019-08-06

Topic

An update for zziplib 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux memory leak Low severity buffer error zziplib

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bugs Fixed

1598244 - CVE-2018-6541 zziplib: Bus error caused by loading of a misaligned address inzzip/zip.c

1626200 - CVE-2018-16548 zziplib: Memory leak triggered in the function __zzip_parse_root_directory in zip.c

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