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Ubuntu: USN-4293-1 (CVE-2019-19221): libarchive vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4293-1 (CVE-2019-19221): libarchive vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/21/2019
Created
06/26/2020
Added
03/03/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

In Libarchive 3.4.0, archive_wstring_append_from_mbs in archive_string.c has an out-of-bounds read because of an incorrect mbrtowc or mbtowc call. For example, bsdtar crashes via a crafted archive.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libarchive13

References

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