CVE-2018-7727

moderate-risk

Published 2018-03-06

An issue was discovered in ZZIPlib 0.13.68. There is a memory leak triggered in the function zzip_mem_disk_new in memdisk.c, which will lead to a denial of service attack.

Do I need to act?

0.13% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 6.5/10 Medium

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (4)

Zziplib

Enterprise Linux Desktop

Enterprise Linux Server

Enterprise Linux Workstation

Affected Vendors

Redhat Gdraheim

References (4)

Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3229

Exploit https://github.com/gdraheim/zziplib/issues/40

Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3229

Exploit https://github.com/gdraheim/zziplib/issues/40

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moderate-risk

Severity 24/34 · High

Exploitability 1/34 · Minimal

Exposure 10/34 · Low