CVE-2017-11189

medium

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

CVSS v3

6.5

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

CVSS v2

4.3

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

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-11189

OS impact

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

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
rarzilla	unrar-free	`0.0.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-476

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