CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-1000880
6.5 MEDIUM
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- 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-119
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.
Affected configurations
• libarchive libarchive (>= 3.2.0 < 3.4.0)
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.10
• fedoraproject fedora 29
• fedoraproject fedora 30
• opensuse leap 15.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00055.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106324 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libarchive/+bug/1794909 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1105 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1105/commits/9c84b7426660c09c18cc349f6d70b5f8168b5680 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CBOCC2M6YGPZA6US43YK4INPSJZZHRTG/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/W645KCLWFDBDGFJHG57WOVXGE62QSIJI/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZVXA7PHINVT6DFF6PRLTDTVTXKDLVHNF/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3859-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4360 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00055.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106324 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libarchive/+bug/1794909 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1105 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1105/commits/9c84b7426660c09c18cc349f6d70b5f8168b5680 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CBOCC2M6YGPZA6US43YK4INPSJZZHRTG/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/W645KCLWFDBDGFJHG57WOVXGE62QSIJI/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZVXA7PHINVT6DFF6PRLTDTVTXKDLVHNF/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3859-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4360 Third Party Advisory