Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 5, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-13259
CVE-2018-13259
Description
An issue was discovered in zsh before 5.6. Shebang lines exceeding 64 characters were truncated, potentially leading to an execve call to a program name that is a substring of the intended one.
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Affected products
18- osv-coords17 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/zsh&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/zsh&distro=HPE%20Helion%20OpenStack%208pkg:rpm/suse/zsh&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015pkg:rpm/suse/zsh&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Point%20of%20Sale%2011%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/zsh&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/zsh&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/zsh&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/zsh&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/zsh&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/zsh&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/zsh&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/zsh&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/zsh&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/zsh&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%208pkg:rpm/suse/zsh&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%209pkg:rpm/suse/zsh&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%20Crowbar%208pkg:rpm/suse/zsh&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%20Crowbar%209
< 5.8-7.7+ 16 more
- (no CPE)range: < 5.8-7.7
- (no CPE)range: < 5.0.5-6.12.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.6-3.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.3.6-67.9.8.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.3.6-67.9.8.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.0.5-6.12.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.0.5-6.12.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.0.5-6.12.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.0.5-6.12.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.0.5-6.12.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.0.5-6.12.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.0.5-6.12.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.0.5-6.12.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.0.5-6.12.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.0.5-6.12.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.0.5-6.12.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.0.5-6.12.2
Patches
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References
7- bugs.debian.org/908000nvdMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
- sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/1c4c7b6a4d17294df028322b70c53803a402233dnvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-02nvdThird Party Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/3764-1/nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.zsh.org/mla/zsh-announce/136nvdMailing ListRelease NotesVendor Advisory
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2017nvd
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00000.htmlnvd
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