Use After Free Affecting ckolivas/lrzip package, versions [,0.631]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.49% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CKOLIVASLRZIP-2367349
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed8 May 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 May 2017

CVE-2017-8846  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for ckolivas/lrzip.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. The read_stream function in stream.c in liblrzip.so in lrzip 0.631 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and application crash) via a crafted archive.

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