Out-of-Bounds Affecting libarchive13 package, versions <3.3.2-3.8.4


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.98% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-LIBARCHIVE13-2756064
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed1 Apr 2019

Introduced: 1 Apr 2019

CVE-2018-1000880  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 libarchive13 to version 3.3.2-3.8.4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libarchive13 package and not the libarchive13 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

libarchive version commit 9693801580c0cf7c70e862d305270a16b52826a7 onwards (release v3.2.0 onwards) contains a CWE-20: Improper Input Validation vulnerability in WARC parser - libarchive/archive_read_support_format_warc.c, _warc_read() that can result in DoS - quasi-infinite run time and disk usage from tiny file. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim must open a specially crafted WARC file.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1