655708 – (CVE-2018-1100) <app-shells/zsh-5.4.1: unchecked strings from the MAILCHECK variable in utils.c:checkmailpath() function

Bug 655708 (CVE-2018-1100) - <app-shells/zsh-5.4.1: unchecked strings from the MAILCHECK variable in utils.c:checkmailpath() function

Summary: <app-shells/zsh-5.4.1: unchecked strings from the MAILCHECK variable in utils...

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	CVE-2018-1100

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

URL:	http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2018/m...
Whiteboard:	B2 [glsa+ cve]
Keywords:

Depends on:	CVE-2018-1083
Blocks:
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Reported:	2018-05-14 01:34 UTC by D'juan McDonald (domhnall)
Modified:	2018-05-26 15:42 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description D'juan McDonald (domhnall) 2018-05-14 01:34:11 UTC

From $URL:

There's a potential buffer overflow in utils.c:checkmailpath() function
where unchecked strings from the MAILCHECK variable are copied to a
buffer. This bug corresponds to CVE-2018-1100 and credit to Richard
Maciel Costa for finding it.

Reference:
https://sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/31f72205630687c1cef89347863aab355296a27f/

Comment 1 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2018-05-26 15:42:12 UTC

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201805-10 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-10
by GLSA coordinator Christopher Diaz Riveros (chrisadr).