Detections
Analytics
CVE-2019-1000020
medium
Description
libarchive version commit 5a98dcf8a86364b3c2c469c85b93647dfb139961 onwards (version v2.8.0 onwards) contains a CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') vulnerability in ISO9660 parser, archive_read_support_format_iso9660.c, read_CE()/parse_rockridge() that can result in DoS by infinite loop. This attack appears to be exploitable via the victim opening a specially crafted ISO9660 file.
References
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3884-1/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00013.html
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1120/commits/8312eaa576014cd9b965012af51bc1f967b12423
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1120
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3698
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2298
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00015.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00012.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00055.html