PT-2017-16802 · Zziplib+3 · Zziplib+3

Agostino Sarubbo · Published 2017-03-01 · Updated 2025-07-10 · CVE-2017-5978

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions zziplib version 0.13.62

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an out-of-bounds read and crash, via a crafted ZIP file. This is due to a problem in the zzip mem entry new function in memdisk.c.

Recommendations For zziplib version 0.13.62, consider avoiding the use of the zzip mem entry new function until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, restrict the processing of crafted ZIP files to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1924

CVE-2017-5978

DLA-994-1

DSA-3878-1

MGASA-2017-0163

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11546-1

SUSE-SU-2017:1095-1

USN-3320-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

Zziplib

References · 74

• 🔥 https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/02/09/zziplib-out-of-bounds-read-in-zzip_mem_entry_new-memdisk-c · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5977 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5978 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5980 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5974 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2017-1924 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3878-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5979 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5981 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5975 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-5978 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5979 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5978 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5981 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5978 · Security Note