USN-4057-1: Zipios vulnerability

Publication date

15 July 2019

Overview

Zipios could be made to crash or consume system resources if it received specially crafted input.


Packages

  • zipios++ - small C++ library for reading zip files (development)

Details

Mike Salvatore discovered that Zipios mishandled certain malformed ZIP files. An
attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service or consume
system resources. (CVE-2019-13453)

Mike Salvatore discovered that Zipios mishandled certain malformed ZIP files. An
attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service or consume
system resources. (CVE-2019-13453)

Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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


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