USN-3913-1: P7ZIP vulnerabilities
Publication date
21 March 2019
Overview
p7zip could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
Releases
Packages
- p7zip - 7z file archiver with high compression ratio
Details
It was discovered that p7zip did not correctly handle certain malformed
archives. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially
crafted archive with p7zip, then p7zip could be made to crash, possibly leading
to abitrary code execution.
It was discovered that p7zip did not correctly handle certain malformed
archives. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially
crafted archive with p7zip, then p7zip could be made to crash, possibly leading
to abitrary code execution.
Update instructions
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
Learn more about how to get the fixes.The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu Release | Package Version | ||
---|---|---|---|
16.04 xenial | p7zip – 9.20.1~dfsg.1-4.2ubuntu0.1 | ||
p7zip-full – 9.20.1~dfsg.1-4.2ubuntu0.1 |
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