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Medium ALAS2-2019-1325 5 CVEs

Moderate: libarchive security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Oct 21, 2019 · Updated Oct 23, 2019

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-1000020: 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. 99999: CVE-2019-1000020 libarchive: Infinite recursion in archive_read_support_format_iso9660.c resulting in denial of service CVE-2019-1000019: libarchive version commit bf9aec176c6748f0ee7a678c5f9f9555b9a757c1 onwards (release v3.0.2 onwards) contains a CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in 7zip decompression, archive_read_support_format_7zip.c, header_bytes() that can result in a crash (denial of service). This attack appears to be exploitable via the victim opening a specially crafted 7zip file. 99999: CVE-2019-1000019 libarchive: Out of bounds read in archive_read_support_format_7zip.c resulting in a denial of service CVE-2018-1000878: 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. 99999: CVE-2018-1000878 libarchive: Use after free in RAR decoder resulting in a denial of service CVE-2018-1000877: libarchive version commit 416694915449219d505531b1096384f3237dd6cc onwards (release v3.1.0 onwards) contains a CWE-415: Double Free vulnerability in RAR decoder - libarchive/archive_read_support_format_rar.c, parse_codes(), realloc(rar->lzss.window, new_size) with new_size = 0 that can result in Crash/DoS. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim must open a specially crafted RAR archive. 99999: CVE-2018-1000877 libarchive: Double free in RAR decoder resulting in a denial of service CVE-2017-14503: libarchive 3.3.2 suffers from an out-of-bounds read within lha_read_data_none() in archive_read_support_format_lha.c when extracting a specially crafted lha archive, related to lha_crc16. 99999: CVE-2017-14503 libarchive: Out-of-bounds read in lha_read_data_none

Fixed packages 5

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 bsdcpio 0:3.1.2-12.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 bsdtar 0:3.1.2-12.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 libarchive 0:3.1.2-12.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 libarchive-debuginfo 0:3.1.2-12.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 libarchive-devel 0:3.1.2-12.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 5

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2017-14503.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2018-1000877.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2018-1000878.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-1000019.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-1000020.html