High severity · published Aug 20, 2018
CVE-2018-1000637
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
7.8
CVSS
1.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.7% · higher than 77% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
ZU
Zutils · Nongnu
through 1.8; 1.8 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000637
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1000637
Issue Tracking
https://bugs.debian.org/904819
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00016.html
Mailing List
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/zutils-bug/2018-08/msg00000.html
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