Bug 2443452 (CVE-2026-28407) - CVE-2026-28407 malcontent: malcontent: Malicious content may remain unexamined due to improper handling of failed archive extraction.
Summary: CVE-2026-28407 malcontent: malcontent: Malicious content may remain unexamine...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-28407
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On: 2443783
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Reported: 2026-02-27 22:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-03-02 11:34 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-02-27 22:02:07 UTC 
malcontent is software for discovering supply-chain compromises through context, differential analysis, and YARA. Prior to version 1.21.0, malcontent would remove nested archives which failed to extract which could potentially leave malicious content. A better approach is to preserve these archives so that malcontent can attempt a best-effort scan of the archive bytes. Version 1.21.0 fixes the issue.
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