CVE-2018-1000097

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-03-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Sharutils sharutils (unshar command) version 4.15.2 contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Affected component on the file unshar.c at line 75, function looks_like_c_code. Failure to perform checking of the buffer containing input line. that can result in Could lead to code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via Victim have to run unshar command on a specially crafted file..

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 17.10
Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
GNU Sharutils: 4.15.2

References

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2018/Feb/54
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3605-1/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4167
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2018/Feb/54
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3605-1/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4167

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