Topic

An update for zziplib is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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.

Description

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

Security Fix(es):

• zziplib: directory traversal in unzzip_cat in the bins/unzzipcat-mem.c (CVE-2018-17828)

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 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.2 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.4 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.4 s390x
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.2 s390x
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.4 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.2 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1635888 - CVE-2018-17828 zziplib: directory traversal in unzzip_cat in the bins/unzzipcat-mem.c

CVEs

• CVE-2018-17828

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.2_release_notes/index