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advancecomp — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1056

An out-of-bounds heap buffer read flaw was found in the way advancecomp before 2.1-2018/02 handled processing of ZIP files. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash the advzip utility by tricking it into processing crafted ZIP files.

Products
advancecomp
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
2.1-1
CVEs
CVE-2018-1056
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 00:04 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1056

core-osv · Original source

Published 27 Jul 2018, 18:29 UTC

An out-of-bounds heap buffer read flaw was found in the way advancecomp before 2.1-2018/02 handled processing of ZIP files. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash the advzip utility by tricking it into processing crafted ZIP files.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1056

advancecomp

Fixed versions: 2.1-1

advancecomp

Fixed versions: 2.1-1

advancecomp

Fixed versions: 2.1-1

Complete source record
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 419877,
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