CVE-2018-5747 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2018-5747?

CVE-2018-5747 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 17 Jan 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

In Long Range Zip (aka lrzip) 0.631, there is a use-after-free in the ucompthread function (stream.c). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted lrz file.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-5747?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Long Range Zip Project Long Range Zip.

How do I fix CVE-2018-5747?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2018-5747 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-5747 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-5747, GHSA-w22r-wrx7-522x, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5747.