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

### [CVE-2017-8844](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8844)
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### 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://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip/issues/70

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