CVE-2018-1000878 — Use After Free in Libarchive

CWE-416 — Use After Free12 documents8 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
OSV7.5
EPSS
1.7%
top 17.63%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
8
LibarchiveCanonical Ubuntu LinuxDebian Linux+5 more
Timeline
PublishedDec 20
Latest updateMay 13

Description

libarchive version commit 416694915449219d505531b1096384f3237dd6cc onwards (release v3.1.0 onwards) contains a CWE-416: Use After Free vulnerability in RAR decoder - libarchive/archive_read_support_format_rar.c that can result in Crash/DoS - it is unknown if RCE is possible. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim must open a specially crafted RAR archive.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages7 packages

▶NVDlibarchive/libarchive3.1.0 — 3.4.0
▶Debianlibarchive/libarchive< 3.3.3-2+3
▶Ubuntulibarchive/libarchive< 3.1.2-7ubuntu2.7+2
▶NVDopensuse/leap15.0

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0, Fedora 28, 29, 30, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10

Patches

Patch: bugs.launchpad.net ↗Patch: github.com ↗Patch: bugs.launchpad.net ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

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GHSA
GHSA-53fm-4pq6-xwr4: libarchive version commit 416694915449219d505531b1096384f3237dd6cc onwards (release v3↗2022-05-13
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OSV
libarchive vulnerabilities↗2019-01-15
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OSV
CVE-2018-1000878: libarchive version commit 416694915449219d505531b1096384f3237dd6cc onwards (release v3↗2018-12-20
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CVEList
CVE-2018-1000878: libarchive version commit 416694915449219d505531b1096384f3237dd6cc onwards (release v3↗2018-12-20
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Ubuntu
libarchive vulnerabilities↗2019-01-15
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Red Hat
libarchive: Use after free in RAR decoder resulting in a denial of service↗2018-11-20
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Debian
CVE-2018-1000878: libarchive - libarchive version commit 416694915449219d505531b1096384f3237dd6cc onwards (rele...↗2018
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💬Community

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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-1000877 CVE-2018-1000878 CVE-2018-1000879 CVE-2018-1000880 mingw-libarchive: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2019-01-07
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-1000877 CVE-2018-1000878 CVE-2018-1000879 CVE-2018-1000880 libarchive3: various flaws [epel-6]↗2019-01-07
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-1000877 CVE-2018-1000878 CVE-2018-1000879 CVE-2018-1000880 libarchive: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2019-01-07
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-1000878 libarchive: Use after free in RAR decoder resulting in a denial of service↗2019-01-07
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