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CVE-2017-11124

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Jul 10, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11124
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

libxar.so in xar 1.6.1 has a NULL pointer dereference in the xar_unserialize function in archive.c.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
XarXar_project1.6.1 (including)1.6.1 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References

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