CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-9296
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-11-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
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.
Affected configurations
• 7-zip p7zip 16.02
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94294 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/yangke/7zip-null-pointer-dereference Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceforge.net/p/p7zip/bugs/185/ Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceforge.net/p/p7zip/discussion/383043/thread/648d34db/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94294 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/yangke/7zip-null-pointer-dereference Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceforge.net/p/p7zip/bugs/185/ Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceforge.net/p/p7zip/discussion/383043/thread/648d34db/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory