CVE-2017-14121: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The DecodeNumber function in unrarlib.c in unrar 0.0.1 (aka unrar-free or unrar-gpl) suffers from a NULL pointer dereference flaw triggered by a crafted RAR archive. NOTE: this may be the same as one of the several test cases in the CVE-2017-11189 references.

Affected products

  • Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only
  • RARLAB UnRAR: version 0.0.1 only

Published 2017-09-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.