CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-11124

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Jul 10, 2017 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
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

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

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Xar Xar_project 1.6.1 (including) 1.6.1 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References