USN-3699-1: zziplib vulnerabilities

zziplib vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 17.10
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

zziplib could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description

• zziplib - library providing read access on ZIP-archives - library

Details

It was discovered that zziplib incorrectly handled certain malformed ZIP files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted ZIP file, a remote attacker could cause zziplib to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

libzzip-0-13 - 0.13.62-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.1

Ubuntu 17.10

libzzip-0-13 - 0.13.62-3.1ubuntu0.17.10.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

libzzip-0-13 - 0.13.62-3ubuntu0.16.04.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

libzzip-0-13 - 0.13.62-2ubuntu0.2

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2018-6381
• CVE-2018-6484
• CVE-2018-6540
• CVE-2018-6541
• CVE-2018-6869
• CVE-2018-7725
• CVE-2018-7726

from Ubuntu Security Notices https://ift.tt/2lNHVXo