zutils version prior to version 1.8-pre2 contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in zcat that can result in Potential denial of service or arbitrary code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim openning a crafted compressed file. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.8-pre2.
References
Link Resource
https://bugs.debian.org/904819 Issue Tracking Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00016.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/zutils-bug/2018-08/msg00000.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-08-20T19:00:00

Updated: 2018-09-16T09:57:01

Reserved: 2018-08-05T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2018-1000637

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-08-20T19:31:34.167

Modified: 2018-11-02T17:10:43.113


Link: CVE-2018-1000637

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cve-icon Redhat Information

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CWE