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CVE-2017-8844

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-05-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The read_1g function in stream.c in liblrzip.so in lrzip 0.631 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted archive.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Long Range Zip Project Long Range Zip: 0.631

References

• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/07/lrzip-heap-based-buffer-overflow-write-in-read_1g-stream-c/
• https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip/issues/70
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/08/msg00001.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-01
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/07/lrzip-heap-based-buffer-overflow-write-in-read_1g-stream-c/
• https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip/issues/70
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/08/msg00001.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-01

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