Out-of-Bounds Affecting sharutils package, versions <1:4.15.2-3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.96% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-SHARUTILS-5694973
  • published13 Mar 2018
  • disclosed13 Mar 2018

Introduced: 13 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-1000097  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 sharutils to version 1:4.15.2-3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sharutils package and not the sharutils package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

Sharutils sharutils (unshar command) version 4.15.2 contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Affected component on the file unshar.c at line 75, function looks_like_c_code. Failure to perform checking of the buffer containing input line. that can result in Could lead to code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via Victim have to run unshar command on a specially crafted file..