CVE-2018-5996

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-5996
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-5996.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-5996
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-01-31T18:29:00.363Z
Modified
2026-03-12T22:56:06.150176Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

unresolved_ranges
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "18.00"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "18.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "7.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "8.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "9.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "7-Zip"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "18.00"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-5996.json"