CVE-2018-13259

zsh: Improper handling of shebang line longer than 64

Published Sep 5, 2018 CVSS 3.0 · 9.8 Critical EPSS 2.7% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2470-1 zsh security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-5207 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3764-1 Zsh vulnerabilities
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
debian
Published
Updated
Aug 5, 2024, 9:00 AM
Reserved
Jul 5, 2018, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Sep 5, 2018, 8:29 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 1:39 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Sep 4, 2018, 12:00 AM