CVE-2018-1071

low
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
2.5

Description

zsh through version 5.4.2 is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow in the exec.c:hashcmd() function. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Affected
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Fixed 5.5-1
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 5.4.2-4
sid Fixed 5.4.2-4
forky Fixed 5.4.2-4
bullseye Fixed 5.4.2-4
bookworm Fixed 5.4.2-4

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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