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Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Feb 27, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-18206

CVE-2017-18206

Description

In utils.c in zsh before 5.4, symlink expansion had a buffer overflow.

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Affected products

6

Zsh/Zshllm-fuzzy
Range: <5.4
osv-coords5 versions
pkg:rpm/suse/zsh&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP3 pkg:rpm/suse/zsh&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Point%20of%20Sale%2011%20SP3 pkg:rpm/suse/zsh&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/zsh&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3 pkg:rpm/suse/zsh&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3
< 5.0.5-6.7.2+ 4 more
- (no CPE)range: < 5.0.5-6.7.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.3.6-67.9.8.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.3.6-67.9.8.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.0.5-6.7.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.0.5-6.7.2

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References

6

sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/c7a9cf465dd620ef48d586026944d9bd7a0d5d6dnvdPatchThird Party Advisory
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1932nvdThird Party Advisory
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3073nvdThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-10nvdThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com/3593-1/nvdThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00000.htmlnvd

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