MGASA-2019-0074

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    MGASA-2019-0074

    Published: 13 Feb 2019Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated libarchive packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: libarchive contains an 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 (CVE-2019-1000019). libarchive contains an infinite loop vulnerability in the 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 (CVE-2019-1000020).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0074.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24337, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3884-1/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libarchive

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/libarchive?arch=source&distro=mageia-6

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.3.1-1.5.mga6

    Affected versions

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