Use After Free Affecting libarchive package, versions <0:3.3.2-7.el8


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.46% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-LIBARCHIVE-4379756
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed20 Nov 2018

Introduced: 20 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-1000878  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 libarchive to version 0:3.3.2-7.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:3698.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libarchive package and not the libarchive package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

libarchive version commit 416694915449219d505531b1096384f3237dd6cc onwards (release v3.1.0 onwards) contains a CWE-416: Use After Free vulnerability in RAR decoder - libarchive/archive_read_support_format_rar.c that can result in Crash/DoS - it is unknown if RCE is possible. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim must open a specially crafted RAR archive.

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