PT-2017-11758 · Xar · Xar

Agostino Sarubbo · Published 2017-07-10 · Updated 2020-02-03 · CVE-2017-11125

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 get path function, located in util.c of the libxar.so library in xar.

Recommendations For xar version 1.6.1, 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-2017-11125

Affected Products

Xar

References · 7

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-11125 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YV6RF6VWM7AFYFTTS7VY5TNH26QUEEFC · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-11125 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11125 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-11125 · 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_get_path-util-c · Note