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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-1000879: Vulnerability in libarchive

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-1000879: Vulnerability in libarchive

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/20/2018
Created
08/22/2019
Added
08/21/2019
Modified
02/17/2022

Description

libarchive version commit 379867ecb330b3a952fb7bfa7bffb7bbd5547205 onwards (release v3.3.0 onwards) contains a CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in ACL parser - libarchive/archive_acl.c, archive_acl_from_text_l() that can result in Crash/DoS. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim must open a specially crafted archive file.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-libarchive-3-4-0-0-175-3-36-0-18-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-library-libarchive-3-3-3-11-4-7-0-1-2-0

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