Bug 1663892 (CVE-2018-1000880)

Summary:	CVE-2018-1000880 libarchive: Improper input validation in WARC parser resulting in a denial of service
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	databases-maint, pkubat, praiskup
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Bug Depends On:	1663893, 1663894, 1663895, 1700751
Bug Blocks:	1663897

Description Andrej Nemec 2019-01-07 09:38:03 UTC

It was found that WARC parser of libarchive improperly validates input. A crafted archive could cause the application to crash.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1105

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1105/commits/021efa522ad729ff0f5806c4ce53e4a6cc1daa31

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2019-01-07 09:39:11 UTC

Created libarchive tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1663893]


Created libarchive3 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-6 [bug 1663895]


Created mingw-libarchive tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1663894]

Comment 4 Stefan Cornelius 2019-04-17 14:17:18 UTC

Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of libarchive as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7.