PublicDateAtUSN: 2018-12-20
Candidate: CVE-2018-1000880
PublicDate: 2018-12-20 17:29:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1000880
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libarchive/+bug/1794909
 https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1105
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3859-1
Description:
 libarchive version commit 9693801580c0cf7c70e862d305270a16b52826a7 onwards
 (release v3.2.0 onwards) contains a CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
 vulnerability in WARC parser -
 libarchive/archive_read_support_format_warc.c, _warc_read() that can result
 in DoS - quasi-infinite run time and disk usage from tiny file. This attack
 appear to be exploitable via the victim must open a specially crafted WARC
 file.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=916960
Priority: low
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to: leosilva
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [6.5 MEDIUM]


Patches_libarchive:
 upstream: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1105/commits/9c84b7426660c09c18cc349f6d70b5f8168b5680
upstream_libarchive: needs-triage
precise/esm_libarchive: DNE
trusty_libarchive: not-affected (code not-present)
trusty/esm_libarchive: not-affected (code not-present)
xenial_libarchive: not-affected (code not present)
esm-infra/xenial_libarchive: not-affected (code not present)
bionic_libarchive: released (3.2.2-3.1ubuntu0.2)
cosmic_libarchive: released (3.2.2-5ubuntu0.1)
devel_libarchive: released (3.3.3-2)