PT-2017-18572 · Lrzip · Lrzip

Asarubbo · Published 2017-05-08 · Updated 2022-10-06 · CVE-2017-8842

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions lrzip version 0.631

Description The issue is related to a divide-by-zero error and application crash that can be triggered by remote attackers via a crafted archive. This is caused by the bufRead::get() function in libzpaq/libzpaq.h in liblrzip.so.

Recommendations For version 0.631, consider updating to a newer version that addresses this issue, as the current version allows for a denial of service attack through a crafted archive. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Divide By Zero

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-369

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-8842

DLA-2725-1

Affected Products

Lrzip

References · 34

• https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip/issues/66 · Patch
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8846 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8842 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8845 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/lrzip · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8843 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8842 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8842 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-10685 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8847 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9928 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-9058 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-5747 · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-01 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9929 · Security Note