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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-510-1 p7zip -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

10 Jun 2016

Affected Packages:

p7zip

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 824160.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-2335.

More information:

Marcin Icewall Noga of Cisco Talos discovered an out-of-bound read vulnerability in the CInArchive::ReadFileItem method in p7zip, a 7zr file archiver with high compression ratio. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial-of-service or, potentially the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running p7zip, if a specially crafted UDF file is processed.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 9.20.1~dfsg.1-4+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your p7zip packages.

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