CVE-2019-18408 — Use After Free in Libarchive

CWE-416 — Use After Free10 documents7 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
4.6%
top 10.76%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
LibarchiveDebian LibarchiveCanonical Ubuntu Linux+1 more
Timeline
PublishedOct 24
Latest updateMay 24

Description

archive_read_format_rar_read_data in archive_read_support_format_rar.c in libarchive before 3.4.0 has a use-after-free in a certain ARCHIVE_FAILED situation, related to Ppmd7_DecodeSymbol.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/libarchive< libarchive 3.4.0-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianlibarchive/libarchive< 3.4.0-1+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 19.04

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-4hj2-55w3-4qwh: archive_read_format_rar_read_data in archive_read_support_format_rar↗2022-05-24
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OSV
CVE-2019-18408: archive_read_format_rar_read_data in archive_read_support_format_rar↗2019-10-24
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
libarchive vulnerability↗2019-10-29
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Red Hat
libarchive: use-after-free in archive_read_format_rar_read_data when there is an error in the decompression of an archive entry↗2019-05-10
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Debian
CVE-2019-18408: libarchive - archive_read_format_rar_read_data in archive_read_support_format_rar.c in libarc...↗2019
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💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-18408 libarchive3: libarchive: use-after-free in archive_read_format_rar_read_data when there is an error in the decompression of an archive entry [epel-6]↗2019-11-07
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-18408 libarchive: use-after-free in archive_read_format_rar_read_data when there is an error in the decompression of an archive entry [fedora-all]↗2019-11-07
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-18408 mingw-libarchive: libarchive: use-after-free in archive_read_format_rar_read_data when there is an error in the decompression of an archive entry [fedora-all]↗2019-11-07
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-18408 libarchive: use-after-free in archive_read_format_rar_read_data when there is an error in the decompression of an archive entry↗2019-11-07
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