CVE-2018-7685 (GCVE-0-2018-7685)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-08-31 15:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 00:52
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
libzypp does not reevaluate malicious rpms once downloaded
Summary
The decoupled download and installation steps in libzypp before 17.5.0 could lead to a corrupted RPM being left in the cache, where a later call would not display the corrupted RPM warning and allow installation, a problem caused by malicious warnings only displayed during download.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CWE
Assigner
References
3 references
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|---|---|
| https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1091624 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://www.suse.com/de-de/security/cve/CVE-2018-7685/ | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-upda… | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
Date Public
2018-08-30 00:00
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