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Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2018 21:36:09 +0800
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To: oss-security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Cc: Antonio Diaz Diaz <antonio@....org>
Subject: Heap-based buffer overflow in zutils zcat
A heap-based buffer overflow (CWE-122) was discovered in the zutils
implementation of zcat. It is apparently possible only if the -v
option, or one of the other options that implies -v, is used.
This seems to have been first discovered in 2016 as a result of
interaction between initramfs-tools and zutils, but was initially
thought to be a bug in the gzip implementation of zcat:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/intel-microcode/+bug/1507443
https://bugs.debian.org/815915
It was eventually reported to the zutils upstream developer (Antonio
Diaz Diaz, cc'd) in the last few weeks and was fixed in version
1.8-pre2. This was announced in:
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/zutils-bug/2018-08/msg00000.html
I will request a CVE ID for this.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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