CVE-2018-1000637

Name	CVE-2018-1000637
Description	zutils version prior to version 1.8-pre2 contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in zcat that can result in Potential denial of service or arbitrary code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim openning a crafted compressed file. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.8-pre2.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-1505-1
NVD severity	medium (attack range: remote)
Debian Bugs	902936, 904819

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
zutils (PTS)	jessie	1.3-4	vulnerable
	jessie (security)	1.3-4+deb8u1	fixed
	stretch	1.5-5+deb9u1	fixed
	buster, sid	1.8-3	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
zutils	source	(unstable)	1.7-3	medium		902936, 904819
zutils	source	jessie	1.3-4+deb8u1	medium	DLA-1505-1
zutils	source	stretch	1.5-5+deb9u1	medium

Notes

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/08/05/1
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/zutils-bug/2018-08/msg00000.html
Fixed by: upstream/0001-zcat-buffer-overrun.patch (in 1.7-3)