Low
Security advisory
Infinite Loop in zziplib v0.13.69 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via the return value "zzip_file_read" in the function "unzzip_cat_file".
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-18442
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:10 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Infinite Loop in zziplib v0.13.69 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via the return value "zzip_file_read" in the function "unzzip_cat_file".
osv:CVE-2020-18442
Complete source record
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