Multiple vulnerabilities in 7-Zip

Description

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in 7-Zip. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause denial of service and possibly to execute arbitrary code.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. Memory corruption vulnerabilities in RAR3 handler can be exploited remotely via specially crafted RAR archive to cause denial of service and possibly to execute arbitrary code;
2. A heap-based buffer overflow in the NCompress::NShrink::CDecoder::CodeReal method can be exploited remotely via specially crafted ZIP archive to cause denial of service and possibly to execute arbitrary code

Original advisories

Related products

• 7-Zip

CVE list

• CVE-2017-17969
  high
• CVE-2018-5996
  high

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