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Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libarchive  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1404-LIBARCHIVE-614931
  • published20 Dec 2018
  • disclosed20 Dec 2018
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Introduced: 20 Dec 2018

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

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.

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