RHSA-2021:4316 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: zziplib security update

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · November 10, 2021

Updated · June 25, 2026

Topic

An update for zziplib is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The zziplib is a lightweight library to easily extract data from zip files.

Security Fix(es):

  • zziplib: infinite loop via the return value of zzip_file_read() as used in unzzip_cat_file() (CVE-2020-18442)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2021:4316 — Red Hat Security Advisory: zziplib security update | PulseLinux