DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1000879

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1000879
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1000879.json
JSON Data
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Upstream
Published
2018-12-20T17:29:01Z
Modified
2025-09-25T22:40:25Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

libarchive version commit 379867ecb330b3a952fb7bfa7bffb7bbd5547205 onwards (release v3.3.0 onwards) contains a CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in ACL parser - libarchive/archiveacl.c, archiveaclfromtext_l() that can result in Crash/DoS. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim must open a specially crafted archive file.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / libarchive

Package

Name
libarchive
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libarchive?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.3.3-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / libarchive

Package

Name
libarchive
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libarchive?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.3.3-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / libarchive

Package

Name
libarchive
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libarchive?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.3.3-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / libarchive

Package

Name
libarchive
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libarchive?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.3.3-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}