CVE-2018-1000877

Summary

CVECVE-2018-1000877
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-12-20 17:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:51:00 UTC
Descriptionlibarchive version commit 416694915449219d505531b1096384f3237dd6cc onwards (release v3.1.0 onwards) contains a CWE-415: Double Free vulnerability in RAR decoder - libarchive/archive_read_support_format_rar.c, parse_codes(), realloc(rar->lzss.window, new_size) with new_size = 0 that can result in Crash/DoS. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim must open a specially crafted RAR archive.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-415

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.10 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 28 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 29 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 30 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 28 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 29 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 30 All All All
Application Libarchive Libarchive All All All All
Application Libarchive Libarchive All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:1196-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 1612-1] libarchive security update MLIST lists.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
Libarchive Multiple Denial Of Service Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: libarchive-3.3.3-6.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Fix various crash, memory corruption and infinite loop conditions by daxtens · Pull Request #1105 · libarchive/libarchive · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:2632-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: libarchive-3.3.3-6.fc28 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Fix various crash, memory corruption and infinite loop conditions by daxtens · Pull Request #1105 · libarchive/libarchive · GitHub MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4360-1 libarchive DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: libarchive-3.3.3-6.fc29 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
Bug #1794909 “Memory corruption in RAR decoder” : Bugs : libarchive package : Ubuntu MISC bugs.launchpad.net Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: libarchive-3.3.3-6.fc28 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
USN-3859-1: libarchive vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: libarchive-3.3.3-6.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:2615-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: libarchive-3.3.3-6.fc29 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296079 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 15.5.0 Missing (CPUOCT2019)
  • 377506 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for libarchive (ALINUX2-SA-2019:0066)
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