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Improper Input Validation Affecting libarchive package, versions *

0.0
low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.59% (79th percentile)
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NVD
6.5 medium
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SUSE
3.3 low
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Red Hat
3.3 low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS8-LIBARCHIVE-1937844
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 20 Nov 2018
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Introduced: 20 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-1000880 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-20 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:8 libarchive.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libarchive package and not the libarchive package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

libarchive version commit 9693801580c0cf7c70e862d305270a16b52826a7 onwards (release v3.2.0 onwards) contains a CWE-20: Improper Input Validation vulnerability in WARC parser - libarchive/archive_read_support_format_warc.c, _warc_read() that can result in DoS - quasi-infinite run time and disk usage from tiny file. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim must open a specially crafted WARC file.

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