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Alma Linux: CVE-2019-19221: Moderate: libarchive security update (ALSA-2020-4443)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2019-19221: Moderate: libarchive security update (ALSA-2020-4443)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/21/2019
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

Description

In 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.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-libarchive-devel

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