CVE-2018-1056: advancemame advancecomp Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2018-1056 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in advancemame advancecomp. EPSS estimates a 1.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 72.6% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 27-07-2018
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 05-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

• CWE-122Heap-based Buffer OverflowA heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().
• CWE-125Out-of-bounds ReadThe product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.