CVE-2018-1000880 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Libarchive

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-20 — Improper Input Validation11 documents7 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV7.5
EPSS
0.5%
top 32.45%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
5
LibarchiveDebian LibarchiveCanonical Ubuntu Linux+2 more
Timeline
PublishedDec 20
Latest updateMay 13

Description

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 vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages5 packages

▶debiandebian/libarchive< libarchive 3.3.3-2 (bookworm)
▶NVDlibarchive/libarchive3.2.0 — 3.4.0
▶Debianlibarchive/libarchive< 3.3.3-2+3
▶Ubuntulibarchive/libarchive< 3.1.2-7ubuntu2.7+2
▶NVDopensuse/leap15.0

Also affects: Fedora 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

3
GHSA
GHSA-vg7w-5p64-2q65: libarchive version commit 9693801580c0cf7c70e862d305270a16b52826a7 onwards (release v3↗2022-05-13
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OSV
libarchive vulnerabilities↗2019-01-15
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OSV
CVE-2018-1000880: libarchive version commit 9693801580c0cf7c70e862d305270a16b52826a7 onwards (release v3↗2018-12-20
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
libarchive vulnerabilities↗2019-01-15
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Red Hat
libarchive: Improper input validation in WARC parser resulting in a denial of service↗2018-11-20
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Debian
CVE-2018-1000880: libarchive - libarchive version commit 9693801580c0cf7c70e862d305270a16b52826a7 onwards (rele...↗2018
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💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-1000880 libarchive: Improper input validation in WARC parser resulting in a denial of service↗2019-01-07
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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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