ubuntu · CVE-2017-5980

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Tracker summary

CVE-2017-5980 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (zziplib), 6 status rows across 6 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 4, ignored 1, needs-triage 1.

Description:

The zzip_mem_entry_new function in memdisk.c in zziplib 0.13.62 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a crafted ZIP file.