PT-2017-11757 · Xar · Xar

Agostino Sarubbo · Published 2017-07-10 · Updated 2020-02-03 · CVE-2017-11124

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions xar version 1.6.1

Description The issue is related to a NULL pointer dereference in the xar unserialize function, located in archive.c, within the libxar.so component of xar.

Recommendations For xar version 1.6.1, consider avoiding the use of the xar unserialize function until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-11124

Affected Products

Xar

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11124 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-11124 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YV6RF6VWM7AFYFTTS7VY5TNH26QUEEFC · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-11124 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-11124 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2S2KRIILUKBJHXDNYJQQX74TFUQRG5ND · Vendor Advisory
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/06/28/xar-null-pointer-dereference-in-xar_unserialize-archive-c · Note