Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU38368

#VU38368 Out-of-bounds read in UnRar - CVE-2017-14122

Published: September 3, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU38368

Vulnerability risk: High

CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-14122

CWE-ID: CWE-125

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerable software:
UnRar

Software vendor:
RARLAB

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

unrar 0.0.1 (aka unrar-free or unrar-gpl) suffers from a stack-based buffer over-read in unrarlib.c, related to ExtrFile and stricomp.

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