vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2018-1000879: libarchive: NULL pointer dereference in ACL parser resulting in a denial of service

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 20, 2018
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

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

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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