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Use After Free Affecting libarchive package, versions <3.2.2-2+deb9u2

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 1.16% (85th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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SUSE
4.4 medium
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Red Hat
8.1 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-LIBARCHIVE-474328
  • published 25 Oct 2019
  • disclosed 24 Oct 2019
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Introduced: 24 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-18408 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-416 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 libarchive to version 3.2.2-2+deb9u2 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.

archive_read_format_rar_read_data in archive_read_support_format_rar.c in libarchive before 3.4.0 has a use-after-free in a certain ARCHIVE_FAILED situation, related to Ppmd7_DecodeSymbol.

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