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".

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-b5d2f7f8f2 advisory.

    Automatic update for zziplib-0.13.72-1.fc36.

    ##### **Changelog**

    ```
    * Wed Feb  9 2022 Alexander Bokovoy <abokovoy@redhat.com> - 0.13.72-1
    - 0.13.72
    - Fixes CVE-2020-18442
    - Resolves: rhbz#1973831
    - Switch build to CMake, drop 32-bit patches as checks integrated in CMake already

    ```

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-530a16ceb1 advisory.

    Automatic update for zziplib-0.13.72-1.fc37.

    ##### **Changelog**

    ```
    * Wed Feb  9 2022 Alexander Bokovoy <abokovoy@redhat.com> - 0.13.72-1
    - 0.13.72
    - Fixes CVE-2020-18442
    - Resolves: rhbz#1973831
    - Switch build to CMake, drop 32-bit patches as checks integrated in CMake already

    ```

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0970-1 advisory.

  - 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)

  - An issue was discovered in function zzip_disk_entry_to_file_header in mmapped.c in zziplib 0.13.69, which     will lead to a denial-of-service. (CVE-2020-18770)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2021:4316 advisory.

  - 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)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6298-1 advisory.

    Liu Zhu discovered that ZZIPlib incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were     tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to     cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-7727)

    YiMing Liu discovered that ZZIPlib incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system     were tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue     to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-18442)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-006 advisory.

    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)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2022-2022-162 advisory.

    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)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2022-2022-081 advisory.

    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)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2021:4316 advisory.

  - 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)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-2859 advisory.

  - 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)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2021-4316 advisory.

    - Fix CVE-2020-18442

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:4316 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * zziplib: infinite loop via the return value of zzip_file_read() as used in unzzip_cat_file()     (CVE-2020-18442)

    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 8.5 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2021:4316 advisory.

  - zziplib: infinite loop via the return value of zzip_file_read() as used in unzzip_cat_file()     (CVE-2020-18442)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to the versions of the zziplib package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - 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)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:2164-1 advisory.

  - 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)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
211358	Fedora 36 : zziplib (2022-b5d2f7f8f2)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
211198	Fedora 37 : zziplib (2022-530a16ceb1)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
192496	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : zziplib (SUSE-SU-2024:0970-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
184902	Rocky Linux 8 : zziplib (RLSA-2021:4316)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	low
179939	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS : ZZIPlib vulnerabilities (USN-6298-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
173102	Amazon Linux 2023 : zziplib, zziplib-devel, zziplib-utils (ALAS2023-2023-006)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	low
167006	Amazon Linux 2022 : zziplib, zziplib-devel, zziplib-utils (ALAS2022-2022-162)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	low
164697	Amazon Linux 2022 : zziplib, zziplib-devel, zziplib-utils (ALAS2022-2022-081)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	low
157725	AlmaLinux 8 : zziplib (ALSA-2021:4316)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	low
156335	Debian DLA-2859-1 : zziplib - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	low
155408	Oracle Linux 8 : zziplib (ELSA-2021-4316)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	low
155216	RHEL 8 : zziplib (RHSA-2021:4316)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	low
155125	CentOS 8 : zziplib (CESA-2021:4316)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	low
153659	EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : zziplib (EulerOS-SA-2021-2491)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	low
151097	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : zziplib (SUSE-SU-2021:2164-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	low

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