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CVE-2017-8847
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.4% 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-476
Description
The bufRead::get() function in libzpaq/libzpaq.h in liblrzip.so in lrzip 0.631 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted archive.
Affected products
References
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/07/lrzip-null-pointer-dereference-in-bufreadget-libzpaq-h/
- https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip/issues/67
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-01
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/07/lrzip-null-pointer-dereference-in-bufreadget-libzpaq-h/
- https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip/issues/67
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-01
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