DSA-3878-1 zziplib -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3878-1 zziplib -- security update

Date Reported:

12 Jun 2017

Affected Packages:

zziplib

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-5974, CVE-2017-5975, CVE-2017-5976, CVE-2017-5978, CVE-2017-5979, CVE-2017-5980, CVE-2017-5981.

More information:

Agostino Sarubbo discovered multiple vulnerabilities in zziplib, a library to access Zip archives, which could result in denial of service and potentially the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed archive is processed.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 0.13.62-3+deb8u1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 0.13.62-3.1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 0.13.62-3.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your zziplib packages.