CVE-2017-5981 - Reachable Assertion

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

seeko.c in zziplib 0.13.62 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and crash) via a crafted ZIP file.

seeko.c in zziplib 0.13.62 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and crash) via a crafted ZIP file.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.5. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Demo Examples

Reachable Assertion

CWE-617

In the excerpt below, an AssertionError (an unchecked exception) is thrown if the user hasn't entered an email address in an HTML form.


               
assert email != null;

Overview

First reported 7 years ago

2017-03-01 15:59:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-10-03 00:03:00

Affected Software

ZZIPlib Project ZZIPlib 0.13.62

0.13.62

References

DSA-3878

96268

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/02/09/zziplib-assertion-failure-in-seeko-c/

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