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FreeBSD: p7zip -- heap overflow vulnerability (CVE-2016-2334)

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FreeBSD: p7zip -- heap overflow vulnerability (CVE-2016-2334)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
05/11/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/20/2016
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Cisco Talos reports: An exploitable heap overflow vulnerability exists in the NArchive::NHfs::CHandler::ExtractZlibFile method functionality of 7zip that can lead to arbitrary code execution.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-p7zip

References

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