CVE-2017-11189

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Published 2017-07-12 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

6.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.5

Description

unrarlib.c in unrar-free 0.0.1 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash), which could be relevant if unrarlib is used as library code for a long-running application. NOTE: one of the several test cases in the references may be the same as what was separately reported as CVE-2017-14121.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1:0.0.1+cvs20140707-4`
sid	Fixed	`1:0.0.1+cvs20140707-4`
forky	Fixed	`1:0.0.1+cvs20140707-4`
bullseye	Fixed	`1:0.0.1+cvs20140707-4`
bookworm	Fixed	`1:0.0.1+cvs20140707-4`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
rarzilla	unrar-free	`0.0.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-476

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.