CVE-2018-5996

Published 31 Jan 2018 · Updated 10 Jan 2025

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3Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 2.9%

Insufficient exception handling in the method NCompress::NRar3::CDecoder::Code of 7-Zip before 18.00 and p7zip can lead to multiple memory corruptions within the PPMd code, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted RAR archive.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

References

https://0patch.blogspot.si/2018/02/two-interesting-micropatches-for-7-zip.html https://github.com/p7zip-project/p7zip/issues/32 https://github.com/p7zip-project/p7zip/issues/8 https://landave.io/2018/01/7-zip-multiple-memory-corruptions-via-rar-and-zip/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040831