vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2019-18408: Security patch for libarchive (ALAS-2020-1343)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 24, 2019
Added
Mar 2, 2020
Modified
Mar 2, 2020

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

amazon-linux-upgrade-libarchive
Title
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