CVE-2018-1056

Publication date 8 February 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8 · High

Score breakdown

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

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

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3570-1
    • AdvanceCOMP vulnerability
    • 14 February 2018

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