RHSA-2025:20838 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: zziplib security update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · November 11, 2025
Updated · September 22, 2026
Topic
An update for zziplib is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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: directory traversal in unzzip_cat in the bins/unzzipcat-mem.c (CVE-2018-17828)
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 9 Release Notes linked from the References section.