NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libarchive package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBARCHIVE-8746392
  • published25 Feb 2025
  • disclosed24 Feb 2025
  • creditrookie

Introduced: 24 Feb 2025

NewCVE-2025-1632  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for libarchive.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference through the list function in bsdunzip.c. An attacker can cause a denial of service by triggering a null pointer dereference.

CVSS Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1