CVE-2018-6869: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In ZZIPlib 0.13.68, there is an uncontrolled memory allocation and a crash in the __zzip_parse_root_directory function of zzip/zip.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted zip file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 17.10 only; version 18.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only
• Gdraheim Zziplib: version 0.13.68 only

Published 2018-02-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.