Out-of-Bounds Affecting ckolivas/lrzip package, versions [,0.640)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.6% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CKOLIVASLRZIP-2367346
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed8 May 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 May 2017

CVE-2017-8844  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ckolivas/lrzip to version 0.640 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. The read_1g function in stream.c in liblrzip.so in lrzip 0.631 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted archive.

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