CVE-2018-17828

It was discovered that zziplib is vulnerable to a directory traversal flaw in most of its unzip binaries, including unzip-mem, unzzipcat-mem, unzzipcat-big, unzzipcat-mix, and unzzipcat-zip. An attacker may use this flaw to write files outside the intended target directory, overwriting existing files, or creating new ones.

Moderate: A directory traversal vulnerability in zziplib allows an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files by crafting a malicious zip archive. This flaw requires user interaction to process the specially crafted archive, potentially leading to data integrity issues on affected Red Hat systems.

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Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.