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7-Zip: CVE-2023-52168: Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 3, 2023
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Jul 31, 2024

Description

The NtfsHandler.cpp NTFS handler in 7-Zip before 24.01 (for 7zz) contains a heap-based buffer overflow that allows an attacker to overwrite two bytes at multiple offsets beyond the allocated buffer size: buffer+512*i-2, for i=9, i=10, i=11, etc.

Solution

7-zip-7-zip-upgrade-latest
Title
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