CVE-2020-18442 (GCVE-0-2020-18442)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-06-18 14:25 – Updated: 2024-08-04 14:00
VLAI
Summary
Infinite Loop in zziplib v0.13.69 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via the return value "zzip_file_read" in the function "unzzip_cat_file".
Severity
3.3 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
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