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zutils version prior to version 1.8-pre2 contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in zcat that can result in Potential
denial of service or arbitrary code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim openning a crafted
compressed file. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.8-pre2.

References:

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/zutils-bug/2018-08/msg00000.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000637
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/08/22/2

(from redmine: issue id 9331, created on 2018-08-23, closed on 2018-08-27)

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  • copied_to #9332 (closed)
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  • child #9333 (closed)