4.3 - RHSA-2019:2196

Problem Description:

An update for zziplib is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

3. Description:

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

Security Fix(es):

* zziplib: Bus error caused by loading of a misaligned address inzzip/zip.c (CVE-2018-6541)

* zziplib: Memory leak triggered in the function __zzip_parse_root_directory in zip.c (CVE-2018-16548)

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 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1598244 - CVE-2018-6541 zziplib: Bus error caused by loading of a misaligned address inzzip/zip.c 1626200 - CVE-2018-16548 zziplib: Memory leak triggered in the function __zzip_parse_root_directory in zip.c