CVE-2019-17582

Published February 9th, 2021

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CVSS v3

9.8

CRITICAL

CVSS v2

7.5

HIGH

Affected

PROJECT

Description

A use-after-free in the _zip_dirent_read function of zip_dirent.c in libzip 1.2.0 allows attackers to have an unspecified impact by attempting to unzip a malformed ZIP archive. NOTE: the discoverer states "This use-after-free is triggered prior to the double free reported in CVE-2017-12858."

nih-at/libzip

A C library for reading, creating, and modifying zip archives.

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