Advisories » MGASA-2017-0304

Updated unrar packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 24 Aug 2017
Modification date: 24 Aug 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2017-12938 , CVE-2017-12940 , CVE-2017-12941 , CVE-2017-12942

Description

Directory traversal issue in UnRAR before 5.5.7 (CVE-2017-12938).

libunrar.a in UnRAR before 5.5.7 has an out-of-bounds read in the
EncodeFileName::Decode call within the Archive::ReadHeader15 function
(CVE-2017-12940).

libunrar.a in UnRAR before 5.5.7 has an out-of-bounds read in the
Unpack::Unpack20 function (CVE-2017-12941).

libunrar.a in UnRAR before 5.5.7 has a buffer overflow in the
Unpack::LongLZ function (CVE-2017-12942).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21563
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/18/2
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/18/6
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-12938
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-12940
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-12941
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-12942

SRPMS

6/nonfree

• unrar-5.50-1.mga6.nonfree