Use After Free Affecting libarchive-debuginfo package, versions <0:3.1.2-14.15.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.62% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-LIBARCHIVEDEBUGINFO-1722006
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed24 Oct 2019

Introduced: 24 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-18408  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 libarchive-debuginfo to version 0:3.1.2-14.15.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2020-1343.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libarchive-debuginfo package and not the libarchive-debuginfo package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 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.

CVSS Scores

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