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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-36976: Use After Free

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-36976: Use After Free

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/20/2021
Created
03/22/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

libarchive 3.4.1 through 3.5.1 has a use-after-free in copy_string (called from do_uncompress_block and process_block).

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-libarchive

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