CVE-2019-1000020

medium
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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

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

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00012.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00015.html

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

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

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1120

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1120/commits/8312eaa576014cd9b965012af51bc1f967b12423

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00013.html

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

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

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3884-1/

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2019-02-04

Updated: 2020-08-24

Type: CWE-835

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

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

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 8.6

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 2.8

Severity: MEDIUM

Vulnerable Software

Configuration 1

OR

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

Configuration 2

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 3

OR

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

Configuration 4

OR

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

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 (26 total)

IDNameProductFamilySeverity
145623CentOS 8 : libarchive (CESA-2019:3698)NessusCentOS Local Security Checks
high
135650EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.2 : libarchive (EulerOS-SA-2020-1488)NessusHuawei 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
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
129207EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : libarchive (EulerOS-SA-2019-2014)NessusHuawei 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
126930EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : libarchive (EulerOS-SA-2019-1725)NessusHuawei Local Security Checks
medium
126929EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : libarchive (EulerOS-SA-2019-1681)NessusHuawei Local Security Checks
medium
126556EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.2.0 : libarchive (EulerOS-SA-2019-1714)NessusHuawei Local Security Checks
medium
126114Photon OS 3.0: Libarchive PHSA-2019-3.0-0015NessusPhotonOS Local Security Checks
high
124863Photon OS 1.0: Libarchive PHSA-2019-1.0-0227NessusPhotonOS 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
123098Fedora 29 : libarchive (2019-0233ec0ff3)NessusFedora Local Security Checks
high
122054Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 18.10 : libarchive vulnerabilities (USN-3884-1)NessusUbuntu Local Security Checks
medium
122038Debian DLA-1668-1 : libarchive security updateNessusDebian Local Security Checks
medium