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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2019-18408: Security patch for libarchive (ALAS-2020-1391)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2019-18408: Security patch for libarchive (ALAS-2020-1391)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/24/2019
Created
05/08/2020
Added
04/27/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

archive_read_format_rar_read_data in archive_read_support_format_rar.c in libarchive before 3.4.0 has a use-after-free in a certain ARCHIVE_FAILED situation, related to Ppmd7_DecodeSymbol.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bsdcpio
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bsdtar
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libarchive
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libarchive-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libarchive-devel

References

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