USN-4057-1: Zipios vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 19.04
• Ubuntu 18.10
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM

Packages

• zipios++ - small C++ library for reading zip files (development)

Details

Mike Salvatore discovered that Zipios mishandled certain malformed ZIP files. An
attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service or consume
system resources. (CVE-2019-13453)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 19.04

• libzipios++0v5 - 0.1.5.9+cvs.2007.04.28-10ubuntu0.19.04.1

Ubuntu 18.10

• libzipios++0v5 - 0.1.5.9+cvs.2007.04.28-10ubuntu0.18.10.1

Ubuntu 18.04

• libzipios++0v5 - 0.1.5.9+cvs.2007.04.28-10ubuntu0.18.04.1

Ubuntu 16.04

• libzipios++0v5 - 0.1.5.9+cvs.2007.04.28-5.2ubuntu0.16.04.1

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

References

• CVE-2019-13453

Related notices

• USN-4055-1: flightcrew, libflightcrew0v5, libflightcrew-dev