Out-of-bounds Write Affecting unrar-nonfree package, versions <1:5.6.6-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.23% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ECHOLATEST-UNRARNONFREE-18767132
  • published14 Aug 2026
  • disclosed1 Jul 2021

Introduced: 1 Jul 2021

CVE-2017-20006  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Echo:latest unrar-nonfree to version 1:5.6.6-1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

UnRAR 5.6.1.2 and 5.6.1.3 has a heap-based buffer overflow in Unpack::CopyString (called from Unpack::Unpack5 and CmdExtract::ExtractCurrentFile).

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1