Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:201267060000000
Revision Date:2017-06-22Version:1
Title:CVE-2012-6706 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - medium.
Description:A VMSF_DELTA memory corruption was discovered in unrar before 5.5.5, as used in Sophos Anti-Virus Threat Detection Engine before 3.37.2 and other products, that can lead to arbitrary code execution. An integer overflow can be caused in DataSize+CurChannel. The result is a negative value of the "DestPos" variable, which allows the attacker to write out of bounds when setting Mem[DestPos].
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2012-6706
Platform(s):Ubuntu 18.10
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) is installed.
  • AND Package Information
  • libclamunrar package in cosmic was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '0.99-4ubuntu1').
  • OR unrar-nonfree package in cosmic, is related to the CVE in some way and has been fixed (note: '5.5.8-1').
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