CVE-2016-9296

Description

A null pointer dereference bug affects the 16.02 and many old versions of p7zip. A lack of null pointer check for the variable folders.PackPositions in function CInArchive::ReadAndDecodePackedStreams in CPP/7zip/Archive/7z/7zIn.cpp, as used in the 7z.so library and in 7z applications, will cause a crash and a denial of service when decoding malformed 7z files.

References

https://sourceforge.net/p/p7zip/bugs/185/

https://github.com/yangke/7zip-null-pointer-dereference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94294

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3