NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libarchive package, versions [0,3.3.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.5% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBARCHIVE-2318948
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed3 Apr 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Apr 2017

CVE-2016-10209  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libarchive to version 3.3.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. The archive_wstring_append_from_mbs function in archive_string.c in libarchive 3.2.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted archive file.

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