CVE-2018-1000637

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    CVE-2018-1000637

    Published: 20 Aug 2018Last Modified: 14 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: zutils version prior to version 1.8-pre2 contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in zcat that can result in Potential denial of service or arbitrary code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim openning a crafted compressed file. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.8-pre2.

    References: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00016.html, https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/zutils-bug/2018-08/msg00000.html, https://bugs.debian.org/904819

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