CVE-2019-11463 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Libarchive

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective LifetimeCWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption9 documents6 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 58.43%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
LibarchiveDebian Libarchive
Timeline
PublishedApr 23
Latest updateOct 12

Description

A memory leak in archive_read_format_zip_cleanup in archive_read_support_format_zip.c in libarchive 3.3.4-dev allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted ZIP file because of a HAVE_LZMA_H typo. NOTE: this only affects users who downloaded the development code from GitHub. Users of the product's official releases are unaffected.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-v36x-fh5g-gvf8: A memory leak in archive_read_format_zip_cleanup in archive_read_support_format_zip↗2022-05-24
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
libarchive: memory leak in archive_read_format_zip_cleanup in archive_read_support_format_zip.c causing denial of service via crafted zip file↗2019-03-28
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Debian
CVE-2019-11463: libarchive - A memory leak in archive_read_format_zip_cleanup in archive_read_support_format_...↗2019
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📄Research Papers

1
arXiv
LineBreaker: Finding Token-Inconsistency Bugs with Large Language Models↗2025-10-12
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💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-11463 libarchive: memory leak in archive_read_format_zip_cleanup in archive_read_support_format_zip.c causing denial of service via crafted zip file [epel-6]↗2019-04-23
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-11463 libarchive: memory leak in archive_read_format_zip_cleanup in archive_read_support_format_zip.c causing denial of service via crafted zip file [fedora-all]↗2019-04-23
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-11463 libarchive: memory leak in archive_read_format_zip_cleanup in archive_read_support_format_zip.c causing denial of service via crafted zip file↗2019-04-23
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-11463 mingw-libarchive: libarchive: memory leak in archive_read_format_zip_cleanup in archive_read_support_format_zip.c causing denial of service via crafted zip file [fedora-all]↗2019-04-23
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