Denial of Service Vulnerability in lrzip 0.631 via Crafted Archive

Denial of Service Vulnerability in lrzip 0.631 via Crafted Archive

CVE-2017-8843 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

The join_pthread function in stream.c in liblrzip.so in lrzip 0.631 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted archive.

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