CVE-2018-5786 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2018-5786?

CVE-2018-5786 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 19 Jan 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

In Long Range Zip (aka lrzip) 0.631, there is an infinite loop and application hang in the get_fileinfo function (lrzip.c). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted lrz file.

Weakness: CWE-835

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-5786?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Long Range Zip Project Long Range Zip.

How do I fix CVE-2018-5786?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2018-5786 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-5786 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-5786, GHSA-7mxv-pr28-272f, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5786.