Incorrect Bitwise Shift of Integer Affecting libarchive package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBARCHIVE-15763576
  • published25 Mar 2026
  • disclosed19 Mar 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Mar 2026

NewCVE-2026-4426  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1335  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Bitwise Shift of Integer in the zisofs decompression process due to improper validation of the pz_log2_bs field from ISO9660 Rock Ridge extensions. An attacker can cause application crashes and service disruption by supplying a specially crafted ISO file.

Workaround

This vulnerability can be mitigated by avoiding the processing of untrusted ISO9660 images and restricting the sources of ISO files to trusted entities.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1