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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-5996: Vulnerability in P7ZIP

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-5996: Vulnerability in P7ZIP

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/31/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/18/2018
Modified
02/01/2022

Description

Insufficient exception handling in the method NCompress::NRar3::CDecoder::Code of 7-Zip before 18.00 and p7zip can lead to multiple memory corruptions within the PPMd code, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted RAR archive.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-compress-p7zip-16-2-3-0-175-3-34-0-2-0

References

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