CVE-2018-1056

Publication date 8 February 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

An out-of-bounds heap buffer read flaw was found in the way advancecomp before 2.1-2018/02 handled processing of ZIP files. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash the advzip utility by tricking it into processing crafted ZIP files.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
advancecomp	17.10 artful	Fixed 2.0-1ubuntu0.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.20-1ubuntu0.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.18-1ubuntu0.1

Notes

ratliff

w/o ASAN errors out on trusty, segfaults on xenial

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
advancecomp	Upstream: 7deeafc

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H