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Out-of-Bounds Affecting libarchive package, versions <3.2.2-2+deb9u1

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required
    Availability High

    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-DEBIAN9-LIBARCHIVE-328066
  • published 20 Dec 2018
  • disclosed 20 Dec 2018
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Introduced: 20 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-1000880 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-119 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 libarchive to version 3.2.2-2+deb9u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libarchive package and not the libarchive package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 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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