Out-of-bounds Read Affecting unrar-free package, versions <1:0.0.1+cvs20140707-4


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.18% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-UNRARFREE-286338
  • published3 Sept 2017
  • disclosed3 Sept 2017

Introduced: 3 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14122  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable unrar-free to version 1:0.0.1+cvs20140707-4 or higher.

NVD Description

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

unrar 0.0.1 (aka unrar-free or unrar-gpl) suffers from a stack-based buffer over-read in unrarlib.c, related to ExtrFile and stricomp.

CVSS Scores

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