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FKIE_CVE-2018-7685

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-08-31 15:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:03
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
References
security@opentext.comhttp://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2018-August/004510.html
security@opentext.comhttps://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1091624
security@opentext.comhttps://www.suse.com/de-de/security/cve/CVE-2018-7685/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2018-August/004510.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1091624
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.suse.com/de-de/security/cve/CVE-2018-7685/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
opensuse libzypp *
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          "vendor": "SUSE",
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              "status": "affected",
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    },
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      "lang": "es",
      "value": "Los pasos de descarga e instalaci\u00f3n desacoplados en libzypp en versiones anteriores a la 17.5.0 podr\u00eda conducir a que un RPM corrupto se deje en la cach\u00e9, en la que una llamada posterior no mostrar\u00eda el aviso de RPM corrupto y permite la instalaci\u00f3n. Este problema est\u00e1 provocado por avisos maliciosos que solo se muestran durante la descarga."
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T02:03:32.073",
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