Out-of-Bounds Affecting libarchive package, versions [3.2.0,3.4.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.98% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBARCHIVE-2318933
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed20 Dec 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Dec 2018

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

How to fix?

Upgrade libarchive to version 3.4.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds 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

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