NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting ckolivas/lrzip package, versions [,0.631]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CKOLIVASLRZIP-2367350
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed8 May 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 May 2017

CVE-2017-8847  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (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 NULL Pointer Dereference. The bufRead::get() function in libzpaq/libzpaq.h in liblrzip.so in lrzip 0.631 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted archive.

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