The vulnerability in the initialization of the archive_read_support_format_rar5.c file in the libarchive library allows a hacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability related to the initialization of the archivereadsupportformatrar5.c file in the libarchive library is linked to input validation errors. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to cause service interruptions using RAR5 format files...

libarchive RAR5 file decompression vulnerability

Libarchive is an open source, C programming library under the BSD license that implements streaming access to a variety of different archive formats. A RAR5 file decompression vulnerability exists in versions of libarchive prior to 3.4.2. The vulnerability stems from libarchive attempting to...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9983

Directory Traversal exists in RAR 4.x and 5.x because an unpack operation follows any symlinks, including symlinks contained in the archive. This allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted archive...