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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
: Normal normal (vote)
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)
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).