CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-1000879

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2018-12-20 Modified 2026-10-08 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-12-20
Last modified
2026-10-08
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

libarchive version commit 379867ecb330b3a952fb7bfa7bffb7bbd5547205 onwards (release v3.3.0 onwards) contains a CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in ACL parser - libarchive/archive_acl.c, archive_acl_from_text_l() that can result in Crash/DoS. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim must open a specially crafted archive file.

Affected configurations

• libarchive libarchive (>= 3.3.0 < 3.4.0) • fedoraproject fedora 28 • fedoraproject fedora 29 • fedoraproject fedora 30 • opensuse leap 15.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References