CVE-2019-19221

Summary

CVECVE-2019-19221
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-11-21 23:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:07:00 UTC
DescriptionIn Libarchive 3.4.0, archive_wstring_append_from_mbs in archive_string.c has an out-of-bounds read because of an incorrect mbrtowc or mbtowc call. For example, bsdtar crashes via a crafted archive.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
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 19.10 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Application Libarchive Libarchive 3.4.0 All All All
Application Libarchive Libarchive 3.4.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-4293-1: libarchive vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 2987-1] libarchive security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 3202-1] libarchive security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Bugfix and optimize archive_wstring_append_from_mbs() · libarchive/libarchive@22b1db9 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: libarchive-3.4.2-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
bsdtar: An error in archive_wstring_append_from_mbs() (archive_string.c) allows out-of-bounds read memory access and subsequently cause a crash · Issue #1276 · libarchive/libarchive · GitHub MISC github.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: libarchive-3.4.2-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 179253 Debian Security Update for libarchive (DLA 2987-1)
  • 181241 Debian Security Update for libarchive (DLA 3202-1)
  • 296076 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 19.3.0 Missing (CPUJAN2020)
  • 377362 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for libarchive (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0019)
  • 751384 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for libarchive (SUSE-SU-2021:3722-1)
  • 770068 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 Security Update (RHSA-2021:0436)
  • 940042 AlmaLinux Security Update for libarchive (ALSA-2020:4443)
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