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Amazon Linux 2 : zziplib (ALAS-2020-1551)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 141948

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of zziplib installed on the remote host is prior to 0.13.62-12. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2020-1551 advisory.

 It was discovered that zziplib is vulnerable to a directory traversal flaw in most of its unzip binaries, including unzip-mem, unzzipcat-mem, unzzipcat-big, unzzipcat-mix, and unzzipcat-zip. An attacker may use this flaw to write files outside the intended target directory, overwriting existing files, or creating new ones. (CVE-2018-17828)

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.

Solution

Run 'yum update zziplib' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2020-1551.html

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17828

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 141948

File Name: al2_ALAS-2020-1551.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/27/2020

Updated: 12/11/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-17828

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:zziplib, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:zziplib-utils, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:zziplib-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:zziplib-debuginfo, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/22/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/1/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-17828

ALAS: 2020-1551