Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libarchive (opens in a new tab)
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- published22 Nov 2019
- disclosed21 Nov 2019
Introduced: 21 Nov 2019
CVE-2019-19221 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libarchive package and not the libarchive package as distributed by Ubuntu.
In Libarchive 3.4.0, archive_wstring_append_from_mbs in archive_string.c has an out-of-bounds read because of an incorrect mbrtowc or mbtowc call. For example, bsdtar crashes via a crafted archive.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-19221
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-19221
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RHFV25AVTASTWZRF3KTSL357AQ6TYHM4/
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/22b1db9d46654afc6f0c28f90af8cdc84a199f41
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/1276
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4293-1/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00020.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00030.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RHFV25AVTASTWZRF3KTSL357AQ6TYHM4/