Debian Security Advisory
DSA-4104-1 p7zip -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 04 Feb 2018
- Affected Packages:
- p7zip
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 888297.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-17969. - More information:
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'landave' discovered a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the NCompress::NShrink::CDecoder::CodeReal method in p7zip, a 7zr file archiver with high compression ratio. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial-of-service or, potentially the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running p7zip, if a specially crafted shrinked ZIP archive is processed.
For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 9.20.1~dfsg.1-4.1+deb8u3.
For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 16.02+dfsg-3+deb9u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your p7zip packages.
For the detailed security status of p7zip please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/p7zip