Security advisory

{
  "id": "1d4c3d2f6e7409db42af15865576b4ae1987ca979d057fa290fd67da768b216c",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-11124",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-11124",
    "summary": "libxar.so in xar 1.6.1 has a NULL pointer dereference in the xar_unserialize function in archive.c.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-11124",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-11124",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-11124"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/mackyle/xar",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "570d6f282ac250408c1241961678f6ee3ca5f27b"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "570d6f282ac250408c1241961678f6ee3ca5f27b"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:xar_project:xar:1.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "1.6.1"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.6.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "1.6.1",
            "xar-1.6.1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-11124.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:22.116301857Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2S2KRIILUKBJHXDNYJQQX74TFUQRG5ND/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YV6RF6VWM7AFYFTTS7VY5TNH26QUEEFC/",
        "https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/06/28/xar-null-pointer-dereference-in-xar_unserialize-archive-c/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-11124",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 430611,
  "published_at": "2017-07-10T03:29:00.177+00:00"
}