CVE-2018-7727 Denial of service in n/a
A memory leak in ZZIPlib allows attackers to cause a denial of service by triggering resource exhaustion.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2018-7727?
CVE-2018-7727 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, published on 6 Mar 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
An issue was discovered in ZZIPlib 0.13.68. There is a memory leak triggered in the function zzip_mem_disk_new in memdisk.c, which will lead to a denial of service attack.
Weakness: CWE-772
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-7727?
It affects 4 products.
Products include Gdraheim Zziplib, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server, Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation.
How do I fix CVE-2018-7727?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
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-2018-7727 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-7727 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-7727, ECHO-a175-481a-8a79, GHSA-4g2g-r89f-8qqm, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-7727.