USN-3320-1: zziplib vulnerabilities
15 June 2017
zziplib could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
Releases
Packages
- 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
Ubuntu 16.10
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.