When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, the read method of Apache Commons Compress 1.7 to 1.17's ZipArchiveInputStream can fail to return the correct EOF indication after the end of the stream has been reached. When combined with a java.io.InputStreamReader this can lead to an infinite stream, which can be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' zip package.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, the read method of Apache Commons Compress 1.7 to 1.17's     ZipArchiveInputStream can fail to return the correct EOF indication after the end of the stream has been     reached. When combined with a java.io.InputStreamReader this can lead to an infinite stream, which can be     used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' zip package. (CVE-2018-11771)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Fix for CVE-2018-11771

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
257210	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-11771	Nessus	Misc.	medium
120816	Fedora 28 : apache-commons-compress (2018-d29be920dc)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
120266	Fedora 29 : apache-commons-compress (2018-1b7b0ad759)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2018-11771

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Tenable Plugins

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