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FKIE_CVE-2017-14107

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-09-01 17:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:05
Severity
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
The _zip_read_eocd64 function in zip_open.c in libzip before 1.3.0 mishandles EOCD records, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory allocation failure in _zip_cdir_grow in zip_dirent.c) via a crafted ZIP archive.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/01/libzip-memory-allocation-failure-in-_zip_cdir_grow-zip_dirent-c/Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/nih-at/libzip/commit/9b46957ec98d85a572e9ef98301247f39338a3b5Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00022.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/01/libzip-memory-allocation-failure-in-_zip_cdir_grow-zip_dirent-c/Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/nih-at/libzip/commit/9b46957ec98d85a572e9ef98301247f39338a3b5Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00022.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
libzip libzip *
debian debian_linux 9.0
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