Ubuntu Security Update USN-3320-1: zziplib vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3320-1


15th June, 2017

zziplib vulnerabilities


A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 17.04
• Ubuntu 16.10
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary


zziplib could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software description

• zziplib - library providing read access on ZIP-archives

Details


Agostino Sarubbo discovered that zziplib incorrectly handled certain
malformed ZIP files. If a user or automated system were tricked into
opening a specially crafted ZIP file, a remote attacker could cause zziplib
to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code.

Update instructions


The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:

Ubuntu 17.04:
libzzip-0-13 0.13.62-3ubuntu0.17.04.1
Ubuntu 16.10:
libzzip-0-13 0.13.62-3ubuntu0.16.10.1
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
libzzip-0-13 0.13.62-3ubuntu0.16.04.1
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libzzip-0-13 0.13.62-2ubuntu0.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References


CVE-2017-5974, CVE-2017-5975, CVE-2017-5976, CVE-2017-5978, CVE-2017-5979, CVE-2017-5980, CVE-2017-5981

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