Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201804-7
========================================
Severity: Medium
Date    : 2018-04-19
CVE-ID  : CVE-2018-7548 CVE-2018-7549
Package : zsh
Type    : denial of service
Remote  : No
Link    : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-642

Summary
======
The package zsh before version 5.5-1 is vulnerable to denial of
service.

Resolution
=========
Upgrade to 5.5-1.

# pacman -Syu "zsh>=5.5-1"

The problems have been fixed upstream in version 5.5.

Workaround
=========
None.

Description
==========
- CVE-2018-7548 (denial of service)

In subst.c in zsh through 5.4.2, there is a NULL pointer dereference
when using ${(PA)...} on an empty array result.

- CVE-2018-7549 (denial of service)

In params.c in zsh through 5.4.2, there is a crash during a copy of an
empty hash table, as demonstrated by typeset -p.

Impact
=====
A local attacker can cause a denial of service via a specially input.

References
=========
https://sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/110b13e1090bc31ac1352b28adc2d02b6d25a102
https://sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/c2cc8b0fbefc9868fa83537f5b6d90fc1ec438dd
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2018-7548
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2018-7549

ArchLinux: 201804-7: zsh: denial of service

April 23, 2018

Summary

- CVE-2018-7548 (denial of service) In subst.c in zsh through 5.4.2, there is a NULL pointer dereference when using ${(PA)...} on an empty array result.
- CVE-2018-7549 (denial of service)
In params.c in zsh through 5.4.2, there is a crash during a copy of an empty hash table, as demonstrated by typeset -p.

Resolution

Upgrade to 5.5-1. # pacman -Syu "zsh>=5.5-1"
The problems have been fixed upstream in version 5.5.

References

https://sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/110b13e1090bc31ac1352b28adc2d02b6d25a102 https://sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/c2cc8b0fbefc9868fa83537f5b6d90fc1ec438dd https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2018-7548 https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2018-7549

Severity
Package : zsh
Type : denial of service
Remote : No
Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-642

Workaround

None.

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