CVE-2018-1000878

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Description

libarchive version commit 416694915449219d505531b1096384f3237dd6cc onwards (release v3.1.0 onwards) contains a CWE-416: Use After Free vulnerability in RAR decoder - libarchive/archive_read_support_format_rar.c that can result in Crash/DoS - it is unknown if RCE is possible. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim must open a specially crafted RAR archive.

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00055.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106324

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2298

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3698

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libarchive/+bug/1794909

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

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1105/commits/bfcfe6f04ed20db2504db8a254d1f40a1d84eb28

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00011.html

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/CBOCC2M6YGPZA6US43YK4INPSJZZHRTG/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/W645KCLWFDBDGFJHG57WOVXGE62QSIJI/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ZVXA7PHINVT6DFF6PRLTDTVTXKDLVHNF/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3859-1/

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4360

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2018-12-20

Updated: 2019-11-06

Type: CWE-416

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Impact Score: 6.4

Exploitability Score: 8.6

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Impact Score: 5.9

Exploitability Score: 2.8

Severity: HIGH

Vulnerable Software

Configuration 1

OR

cpe:2.3:a:libarchive:libarchive:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2

OR

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 3

OR

cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 4

OR

cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:28:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Tenable Plugins

View all (25 total)

IDNameProductFamilySeverity
145623CentOS 8 : libarchive (CESA-2019:3698)NessusCentOS Local Security Checks
high
132509NewStart CGSL CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05 : libarchive Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2019-0248)NessusNewStart CGSL Local Security Checks
high
131871EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : libarchive (EulerOS-SA-2019-2379)NessusHuawei Local Security Checks
high
131692openSUSE Security Update : libarchive (openSUSE-2019-2632)NessusSuSE Local Security Checks
high
131685openSUSE Security Update : libarchive (openSUSE-2019-2615)NessusSuSE Local Security Checks
high
131554SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : libarchive (SUSE-SU-2019:3093-1)NessusSuSE Local Security Checks
high
131553SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : libarchive (SUSE-SU-2019:3092-1)NessusSuSE Local Security Checks
high
130565RHEL 8 : libarchive (RHSA-2019:3698)NessusRed Hat Local Security Checks
high
130222Amazon Linux 2 : libarchive (ALAS-2019-1325)NessusAmazon Linux Local Security Checks
high
129902NewStart CGSL CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04 : libarchive Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2019-0201)NessusNewStart CGSL Local Security Checks
high
129798Amazon Linux AMI : libarchive (ALAS-2019-1308)NessusAmazon Linux Local Security Checks
high
128387CentOS 7 : libarchive (CESA-2019:2298)NessusCentOS Local Security Checks
high
128228Scientific Linux Security Update : libarchive on SL7.x x86_64 (20190806)NessusScientific Linux Local Security Checks
high
127709RHEL 7 : libarchive (RHSA-2019:2298)NessusRed Hat Local Security Checks
high
124893EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.1.0 : libarchive (EulerOS-SA-2019-1390)NessusHuawei Local Security Checks
high
124557Fedora 30 : libarchive (2019-fbe83d0e32)NessusFedora Local Security Checks
high
124051openSUSE Security Update : libarchive (openSUSE-2019-1196)NessusSuSE Local Security Checks
high
123766Fedora 28 : libarchive (2019-c595a93536)NessusFedora Local Security Checks
high
123636SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : libarchive (SUSE-SU-2019:0831-1)NessusSuSE Local Security Checks
high
123107EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : libarchive (EulerOS-SA-2019-1094)NessusHuawei Local Security Checks
high
123098Fedora 29 : libarchive (2019-0233ec0ff3)NessusFedora Local Security Checks
high
122690EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : libarchive (EulerOS-SA-2019-1067)NessusHuawei Local Security Checks
high
121211Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 18.10 : libarchive vulnerabilities (USN-3859-1)NessusUbuntu Local Security Checks
high
119893Debian DSA-4360-1 : libarchive - security updateNessusDebian Local Security Checks
high
119847Debian DLA-1612-1 : libarchive security updateNessusDebian Local Security Checks
high