CVE-2018-1000097

HIGH 7.8CVE-2018-1000097 · Published 13/03/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-1000097 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting sharutils (gnu).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.0%, higher than 80.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
sharutils gnu	`= 4.15.2`	No fix yet

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..

References

seclists.org/bugtraq/2018/Feb/54 · Mailing List
usn.ubuntu.com/3605-1 · Third Party Advisory
debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4167 · Third Party Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

sharutils

gnu

= 4.15.2

No fix yet

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