CVE-2017-12940

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-12940
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-08-18 14:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-06-16 01:29:00 UTC
Descriptionlibunrar.a in UnRAR before 5.5.7 has an out-of-bounds read in the EncodeFileName::Decode call within the Archive::ReadHeader15 function.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Rarlab Unrar All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
RAR, UnRAR: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201709-24) — Gentoo Security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
McAfee Security Bulletin - Web Gateway update fixes several vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-6667, CVE-2018-1124, CVE-2017-12940, CVE-2017-12941, and CVE-2017-12942) CONFIRM kc.mcafee.com
oss-sec: UnRAR: directory traversal + memory safety bugs MISC seclists.org Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 710372 Gentoo Linux RAR, UnRAR Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 201709-24)
  • 751038 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for unrar (SUSE-SU-2021:2834-1)
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