Bug 2144972 (CVE-2022-36227)

Summary:	CVE-2022-36227 libarchive: NULL pointer dereference in archive_write.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	acrosby, adudiak, aoconnor, bdettelb, caswilli, databases-maint, dffrench, dhalasz, dkuc, fjansen, gzaronik, hbraun, hkataria, ikanias, jary, jburrell, jkoehler, jmitchel, jtanner, jwon, kaycoth, kshier, ljavorsk, micjohns, mmuzila, ngough, pkubat, praiskup, rbobbitt, rgodfrey, rravi, stcannon, sthirugn, tcarlin, tfister, tohughes, vkrizan, vmugicag, yguenane, zmiklank
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in libarchive. A missing check of the return value of the calloc function can cause a NULL pointer dereference in an out-of-memory condition or when a memory allocation limit is reached, resulting in the program linked with libarchive to crash.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2023-05-17 00:51:37 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2144973, 2144974, 2144975, 2147362, 2147363
Bug Blocks:	2144976

Description Pedro Sampaio 2022-11-22 20:01:01 UTC

In libarchive 3.6.1, the software does not check for an error after calling calloc function that can return with a NULL pointer if the function fails, which leads to a resultant NULL pointer dereference or, in some cases, even arbitrary code execution.

Upstream patch:
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/fd180c36036df7181a64931264732a10ad8cd024

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2022-11-22 20:01:25 UTC

Created cmake3 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2144973]


Created libarchive tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2144974]


Created mingw-libarchive tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2144975]

Comment 2 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2022-11-23 19:08:33 UTC

Reference:
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/1754

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2023-05-09 07:56:48 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2023:2532 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2532

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2023-05-16 08:43:29 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2023:3018 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3018

Comment 8 Product Security DevOps Team 2023-05-17 00:51:33 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2022-36227

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2024-01-10 13:22:34 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2024:0146 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0146