UBUNTU-CVE-2018-13259

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-13259

    Published: 5 Sept 2018Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-13259
    Aliases:
    USN-3764-1

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in zsh before 5.6. Shebang lines exceeding 64 characters were truncated, potentially leading to an execve call to a program name that is a substring of the intended one.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-13259, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3764-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-13259

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: zsh

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -5.0.2-3ubuntu6.3

    Affected versions

    5.0.2-3ubuntu6
    5.0.2-3ubuntu6.1
    5.0.2-3ubuntu6.2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High