Vulnerability in lrzip
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A vulnerability tracked as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-5650 has been found in lrzip.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade lrzip to 0.631+git180517-1 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "lrzip DEBIAN-CVE-2018-5650" on the vendor's site.
DEBIAN-CVE-2018-5650 (lrzip)
Attack vector: local / unauthenticated
Patched: 0.631+git180517-1 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in lrzip.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of lrzip.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 0.631+git180517-1.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'lrzip' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1
Identify exposureidentify
grep -r 'lrzip' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
lrzipを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
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Apply patchpatch
Upgrade lrzip to 0.631+git180517-1ステージング環境で 0.631+git180517-1 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3
Post-deployment verificationverify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | lrzip |
< 0.631+git180517-1 |
0.631+git180517-1 |
| Debian:13 | lrzip |
< 0.631+git180517-1 |
0.631+git180517-1 |
| Debian:14 | lrzip |
< 0.631+git180517-1 |
0.631+git180517-1 |
Original description The description as published by the source.
In Long Range Zip (aka lrzip) 0.631, there is an infinite loop and application hang in the unzip_match function in runzip.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted lrz file.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
References
- advisory security-tracker.debian.org