CVE-2012-6706
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jun 22, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jun 22, 2017
Description
A VMSF_DELTA memory corruption was discovered in unrar before 5.5.5, as used in Sophos Anti-Virus Threat Detection Engine before 3.37.2 and other products, that can lead to arbitrary code execution. An integer overflow can be caused in DataSize+CurChannel. The result is a negative value of the "DestPos" variable, which allows the attacker to write out of bounds when setting Mem[DestPos].
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1286
- https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/11/05/tavis-ormandy-sophos/
- GLSA-201709-24vendor-advisory
- https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/118424#six
- GLSA-201708-05vendor-advisory
- https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/sophailv2.pdf
- GLSA-201804-16vendor-advisory
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10205
- http://telussecuritylabs.com/threats/show/TSL20121207-01
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1027725
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