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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1268-1 p7zip -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

02 Feb 2018

Affected Packages:

p7zip

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 888297.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-17969.

More information:

The p7zip package has a heap-based buffer overflow in the NCompress::NShrink::CDecoder::CodeReal method in 7-Zip which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or potentially execute arbitrary code via a crafted ZIP archive.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 9.20.1~dfsg.1-4+deb7u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your p7zip packages.

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