PT-2017-18573 · Lrzip · Lrzip
Asarubbo
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Published
2017-05-08
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Updated
2022-12-09
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CVE-2017-8843
CVSS v3.1
5.5
Medium
| 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 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and application crash, via a crafted archive. This is due to a problem in the join pthread function in stream.c in liblrzip.so.
Recommendations
For version 0.631, consider updating to a newer version that addresses this issue, as the current version is affected. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
DoS
NULL Pointer Dereference
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Weakness Enumeration
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Affected Products
Lrzip