CentOS 7 : zziplib (CESA-2018:3229)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 118999

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

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 impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link (s) in the References section.

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

Security Fix(es) :

* zziplib: out of bound read in mmapped.c:zzip_disk_fread() causes crash (CVE-2018-7725)

* zziplib: Bus error in zip.c:__zzip_parse_root_directory() cause crash via crafted zip file (CVE-2018-7726)

* zziplib: Memory leak in memdisk.c:zzip_mem_disk_new() can lead to denial of service via crafted zip (CVE-2018-7727)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, 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 7.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

Update the affected zziplib packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?c8f2e875

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 118999

File Name: centos_RHSA-2018-3229.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/16/2018

Updated: 7/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-7727

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:zziplib-utils, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:zziplib-devel, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:zziplib

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/15/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/6/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-7725, CVE-2018-7726, CVE-2018-7727

RHSA: 2018:3229