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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2019-18408: libarchive: use-after-free in archive_read_format_rar_read_data when there is an error in the decompression of an archive entry

Name: Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2019-18408: libarchive: use-after-free in archive_read_format_rar_read_data when there is an error in the decompression of an archive entry
Creator: Red Hat
Published: 2019-10-24T00:00:00.000Z
Keywords: CVE, CWE-416, Red Hat OpenShift, 2019, 18408, libarchive, linuxrpm-upgrade-redhat-coreos, Severity 5

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Oct 24, 2019

Added

Dec 29, 2020

Modified

Mar 30, 2026

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

linuxrpm-upgrade-redhat-coreos

References

CVE-2019-18408
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2019-18408
CWE-416
EUVD-EUVD-2019-8180
REDHAT-RHSA-2020:0203
REDHAT-RHSA-2020:0246
REDHAT-RHSA-2020:0271
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2019-8180

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