CVEs-PoC/2017/CVE-2017-12940.md

### [CVE-2017-12940](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-12940)
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### Description

libunrar.a in UnRAR before 5.5.7 has an out-of-bounds read in the EncodeFileName::Decode call within the Archive::ReadHeader15 function.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/290
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10241

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.