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CVE-2018-16548 (GCVE-0-2018-16548)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-09-05 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 10:24
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Summary
An issue was discovered in ZZIPlib through 0.13.69. There is a memory leak triggered in the function __zzip_parse_root_directory in zip.c, which will lead to a denial of service attack.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2018-09-05 00:00
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