Bug 1470070 (CVE-2017-11124, CVE-2017-11125)

Summary: CVE-2017-11125 CVE-2017-11124 xar: Multiple vulnerabilities
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Mosaab Alzoubi <moceap>
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-07-12 11:24:01 UTC
It was found that libxar.so in xar 1.6.1 has a NULL pointer dereference in the xar_get_path function in util.c. A local attacker could cause the application to crash.

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https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/06/28/xar-null-pointer-dereference-in-xar_get_path-util-c/

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-07-12 11:27:08 UTC
It was found that libxar.so in xar 1.6.1 has a NULL pointer dereference in the xar_unserialize function in archive.c. A local attacker could cause the application to crash.

References:

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/06/28/xar-null-pointer-dereference-in-xar_unserialize-archive-c/

Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2017-07-12 11:28:07 UTC
Created xar tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1470073]

Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 03:16:18 UTC
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.

Comment 4 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-01-25 02:09:31 UTC
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.

Comment 5 Mosaab Alzoubi 2020-01-25 02:48:06 UTC
Fixed in xar-1.8.0.417.1-1