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Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libarchive  (opens in a new tab)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-DEBIAN8-LIBARCHIVE-551796
  • published21 Feb 2020
  • disclosed20 Feb 2020
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Introduced: 20 Feb 2020

CVE-2020-9308  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:8.

NVD Description

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

archive_read_support_format_rar5.c in libarchive before 3.4.2 attempts to unpack a RAR5 file with an invalid or corrupted header (such as a header size of zero), leading to a SIGSEGV or possibly unspecified other impact.

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