CVE-2018-5996

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jan 31, 2018
Updated: Jan 10, 2025
Reserved: Jan 22, 2018

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://landave.io/2018/01/7-zip-multiple-memory-corruptions-via-rar-and-zip/
1040831vdb-entry
https://0patch.blogspot.si/2018/02/two-interesting-micropatches-for-7-zip.html
https://github.com/p7zip-project/p7zip/issues/8
https://github.com/p7zip-project/p7zip/issues/32

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