cve/2017/CVE-2017-8846.md

CVE-2017-8846

Description

The read_stream function in stream.c in liblrzip.so in lrzip 0.631 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and application crash) via a crafted archive.

POC

Reference

• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/07/lrzip-use-after-free-in-read_stream-stream-c/
• https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip/issues/71

Github

• https://github.com/andir/nixos-issue-db-example