vulnerability

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
Nov 21, 2019
Added
Mar 3, 2020
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

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

ubuntu-upgrade-libarchive13
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