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CVE-2018-1000097

N/A

Published: March 13, 2018 at 01:00 AM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:32 AM UTC

3 products affected across 3 vendorsDebian LinuxUbuntu LinuxSharutils

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 2%

Description

Sharutils sharutils (unshar command) version 4.15.2 contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Affected component on the file unshar.c at line 75, function looks_like_c_code. Failure to perform checking of the buffer containing input line. that can result in Could lead to code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via Victim have to run unshar command on a specially crafted file..

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Ubuntu Linux · Canonicalrubygems

95%

14.04 16.04 17.10

Debian Linux · Debiandrupal

95%

Sharutils · Gnu

95%

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (3)

Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2018/Feb/54

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3605-1/

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4167

CVSS

6.8MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: PARTIAL
Integrity: PARTIAL
Availability: PARTIAL

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-119

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