Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libarchive  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-LIBARCHIVE-1320097
  • published20 Jul 2021
  • disclosed20 Jul 2021

Introduced: 20 Jul 2021

CVE-2021-36976  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libarchive package and not the libarchive package as distributed by Debian.

libarchive 3.4.1 through 3.5.1 has a use-after-free in copy_string (called from do_uncompress_block and process_block).