CVEs-PoC/2017/CVE-2017-8844.md

CVE-2017-8844

Description

The read_1g function in stream.c in liblrzip.so in lrzip 0.631 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted archive.

POC

Reference

• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/07/lrzip-heap-based-buffer-overflow-write-in-read_1g-stream-c/
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/07/lrzip-heap-based-buffer-overflow-write-in-read_1g-stream-c/
• https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip/issues/70
• https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip/issues/70

Github

• https://github.com/andir/nixos-issue-db-example