SB2019070410 - Denial of service in Info-ZIP UnZip
Published: July 4, 2019 Updated: June 25, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019070410
Severity
Medium
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-13232)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack via a specially crafted zip file.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.
References
- https://github.com/madler/unzip
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00005.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00027.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-58
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190814-0002/
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K80311892?utm_source=f5support&utm_medium=RSS
- https://www.bamsoftware.com/hacks/zipbomb/