USN-3320-1: zziplib vulnerabilities
15 June 2017
zziplib vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 17.04
- Ubuntu 16.10
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Summary
zziplib could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
Software Description
- zziplib - library providing read access on ZIP-archives
Details
Agostino Sarubbo discovered that zziplib incorrectly handled certain malformed ZIP files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted ZIP file, a remote attacker could cause zziplib to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 17.04
- libzzip-0-13 - 0.13.62-3ubuntu0.17.04.1
- Ubuntu 16.10
- libzzip-0-13 - 0.13.62-3ubuntu0.16.10.1
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- libzzip-0-13 - 0.13.62-3ubuntu0.16.04.1
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- libzzip-0-13 - 0.13.62-2ubuntu0.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.