CVE-2018-6542

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

In ZZIPlib 0.13.67, there is a bus error (when handling a disk64_trailer seek value) caused by loading of a misaligned address in the zzip_disk_findfirst function of zzip/mmapped.c.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-6542

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6542.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed0.13.68-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormaffected
debian debianbullseyeaffected
debian debianforkyaffected
debian debiansidaffected
debian debiantrixieaffected

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.