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7-Zip: CVE-2018-10115: Denial of Service and Remote Code Execution vuln via crafted RAR archive

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7-Zip: CVE-2018-10115: Denial of Service and Remote Code Execution vuln via crafted RAR archive

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/13/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/16/2018
Modified
06/14/2018

Description

Incorrect initialization logic of RAR decoder objects in 7-Zip 18.03 and before can lead to usage of uninitialized memory, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted RAR archive.

Solution(s)

  • 7-zip-upgrade-18_05

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