vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-17969: p7zip -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 30, 2018
Added
Feb 6, 2018
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the NCompress::NShrink::CDecoder::CodeReal method in 7-Zip before 18.00 and p7zip allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or potentially execute arbitrary code via a crafted ZIP archive.

Solution

debian-upgrade-p7zip
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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