Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-1000879 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
libarchive version commit 379867ecb330b3a952fb7bfa7bffb7bbd5547205 onwards (release v3.3.0 onwards) contains a CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in ACL parser - libarchive/archive_acl.c, archive_acl_from_text_l() that can result in Crash/DoS. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim must open a specially crafted archive file.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 4 | |
OS | 1 | |
OS | 3 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2019-C595A93536.NASL description Security fix for [CVE-2018-1000877 CVE-2018-1000878 CVE-2018-1000879 CVE-2018-1000880] ---- Applied various flaws from upsteam Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 123766 published 2019-04-05 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/123766 title Fedora 28 : libarchive (2019-c595a93536) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2019-c595a93536. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(123766); script_version("1.4"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2020/01/23"); script_cve_id("CVE-2018-1000877", "CVE-2018-1000878", "CVE-2018-1000879", "CVE-2018-1000880", "CVE-2019-1000019", "CVE-2019-1000020"); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2019-c595a93536"); script_name(english:"Fedora 28 : libarchive (2019-c595a93536)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Security fix for [CVE-2018-1000877 CVE-2018-1000878 CVE-2018-1000879 CVE-2018-1000880] ---- Applied various flaws from upsteam Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-c595a93536" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected libarchive package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libarchive"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:28"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/12/20"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/04/05"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/04/05"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora"); os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! preg(pattern:"^28([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 28", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC28", reference:"libarchive-3.3.3-6.fc28")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_WARNING, extra : rpm_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "libarchive"); }
NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2019-1_0-0227_LIBARCHIVE.NASL description An update of the libarchive package has been released. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 124863 published 2019-05-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/124863 title Photon OS 1.0: Libarchive PHSA-2019-1.0-0227 code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2019-1.0-0227. The text # itself is copyright (C) VMware, Inc. include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(124863); script_version("1.2"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2020/01/16"); script_cve_id( "CVE-2018-1000879", "CVE-2018-1000880", "CVE-2019-1000019", "CVE-2019-1000020" ); script_name(english:"Photon OS 1.0: Libarchive PHSA-2019-1.0-0227"); script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated packages."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value: "An update of the libarchive package has been released."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Updates-1.0-227.md"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value: "Update the affected Linux packages."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2018-19788"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/12/03"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/04/24"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/05/14"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:libarchive"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:vmware:photonos:1.0"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_family(english:"PhotonOS Local Security Checks"); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/PhotonOS/release", "Host/PhotonOS/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/PhotonOS/release"); if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^VMware Photon") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "PhotonOS"); if (release !~ "^VMware Photon (?:Linux|OS) 1\.0(\D|$)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "PhotonOS 1.0"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/PhotonOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "PhotonOS", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-1.0", reference:"libarchive-3.3.1-3.ph1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-1.0", reference:"libarchive-debuginfo-3.3.1-3.ph1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-1.0", reference:"libarchive-devel-3.3.1-3.ph1")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_HOLE, extra : rpm_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "libarchive"); }
NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2019-3_0-0015_LIBARCHIVE.NASL description An update of the libarchive package has been released. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 126114 published 2019-06-24 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/126114 title Photon OS 3.0: Libarchive PHSA-2019-3.0-0015 NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2019-0233EC0FF3.NASL description Security fix for [CVE-2018-1000877 CVE-2018-1000878 CVE-2018-1000879 CVE-2018-1000880] ---- Applied various flaws from upsteam Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 123098 published 2019-03-26 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/123098 title Fedora 29 : libarchive (2019-0233ec0ff3) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2019-0831-1.NASL description This update for libarchive fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : CVE-2018-1000877: Fixed a double free vulnerability in RAR decoder (bsc#1120653) CVE-2018-1000878: Fixed a Use-After-Free vulnerability in RAR decoder (bsc#1120654) CVE-2018-1000879: Fixed a NULL pointer Dereference vulnerability in ACL parser (bsc#1120656) CVE-2018-1000880: Fixed an Improper Input Validation vulnerability in WARC parser (bsc#1120659) CVE-2019-1000019: Fixed an Out-Of-Bounds Read vulnerability in 7zip decompression (bsc#1124341) CVE-2019-1000020: Fixed an Infinite Loop vulnerability in ISO9660 parser (bsc#1124342) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 123636 published 2019-04-02 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/123636 title SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : libarchive (SUSE-SU-2019:0831-1) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2019-FBE83D0E32.NASL description Security fix for [CVE-2018-1000877 CVE-2018-1000878 CVE-2018-1000879 CVE-2018-1000880] ---- Applied various flaws from upsteam Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 124557 published 2019-05-02 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/124557 title Fedora 30 : libarchive (2019-fbe83d0e32) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2019-1196.NASL description This update for libarchive fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2018-1000877: Fixed a double free vulnerability in RAR decoder (bsc#1120653) - CVE-2018-1000878: Fixed a Use-After-Free vulnerability in RAR decoder (bsc#1120654) - CVE-2018-1000879: Fixed a NULL pointer Dereference vulnerability in ACL parser (bsc#1120656) - CVE-2018-1000880: Fixed an Improper Input Validation vulnerability in WARC parser (bsc#1120659) - CVE-2019-1000019: Fixed an Out-Of-Bounds Read vulnerability in 7zip decompression (bsc#1124341) - CVE-2019-1000020: Fixed an Infinite Loop vulnerability in ISO9660 parser (bsc#1124342) This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 124051 published 2019-04-15 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/124051 title openSUSE Security Update : libarchive (openSUSE-2019-1196)
References
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1105/commits/15bf44fd2c1ad0e3fd87048b3fcc90c4dcff1175
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1105
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libarchive/+bug/1794909
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106324
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00055.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZVXA7PHINVT6DFF6PRLTDTVTXKDLVHNF/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/W645KCLWFDBDGFJHG57WOVXGE62QSIJI/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CBOCC2M6YGPZA6US43YK4INPSJZZHRTG/