CVE-2019-17582

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2019-17582 · Published 09/02/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2019-17582 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting libzip (libzip).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.5%, higher than 84.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
libzip libzip	`= 1.2.0`	No fix yet

Description

A use-after-free in the _zip_dirent_read function of zip_dirent.c in libzip 1.2.0 allows attackers to have an unspecified impact by attempting to unzip a malformed ZIP archive. NOTE: the discoverer states "This use-after-free is triggered prior to the double free reported in CVE-2017-12858."

References

nih-at/libzip commit 2217022 · Patch
nih-at/libzip · Third Party Advisory
libzip.org/libzip-discuss · Release Notes

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