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SUSE: CVE-2018-1000879: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/20/2018
Created
04/22/2019
Added
04/12/2019
Modified
10/22/2021

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)

  • suse-upgrade-bsdtar
  • suse-upgrade-libarchive-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libarchive13
  • suse-upgrade-libarchive13-32bit

References

  • SUSE-SU-2019:0831-1
  • CVE-2018-1000879

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