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Medium · 5.5 Public exploit CVE-2018-12418 EUVD-2018-0513GHSA-5xqr-grq4-qwgx

Junrar vulnerable to Infinite Loop

Published Jun 14, 2018 · Updated Sep 17, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Archive.java in Junrar before 1.0.1, as used in Apache Tika and other products, is affected by a denial of service vulnerability due to an infinite loop when handling corrupt RAR files.

Public exploits

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GitHub 1 repository

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Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven com.github.junrar:junrar < 1.0.1 1.0.1 GHSA-5xqr-grq4-qwgx

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