| 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, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1505-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 902936, 904819 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| zutils (PTS) | buster | 1.8-3 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1.10-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1.12-2 | fixed |
| trixie, sid | 1.13-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://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)