USN-7070-1: libarchive vulnerabilities
First published: Wed Oct 16 2024(Updated: )
It was discovered that libarchive mishandled certain memory checks, which could result in a NULL pointer dereference. An attacker could potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-36227) It was discovered that libarchive mishandled certain memory operations, which could result in an out-of-bounds memory access. An attacker could potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-48957, CVE-2024-48958)
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/libarchive13t64 | <3.7.2-2ubuntu0.2 | 3.7.2-2ubuntu0.2 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =24.04 | |
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/libarchive13 | <3.6.0-1ubuntu1.2 | 3.6.0-1ubuntu1.2 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =22.04 | |
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/libarchive13 | <3.4.0-2ubuntu1.3 | 3.4.0-2ubuntu1.3 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =20.04 | |
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/libarchive13 | <3.2.2-3.1ubuntu0.7+esm1 | 3.2.2-3.1ubuntu0.7+esm1 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =18.04 | |
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/libarchive13 | <3.1.2-11ubuntu0.16.04.8+esm1 | 3.1.2-11ubuntu0.16.04.8+esm1 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =16.04 | |
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/libarchive13 | <3.1.2-7ubuntu2.8+esm3 | 3.1.2-7ubuntu2.8+esm3 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =14.04 |
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Reference Links
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-48958
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-48957
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-36227
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libarchive/3.7.2-2ubuntu0.2
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libarchive/3.6.0-1ubuntu1.2
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libarchive/3.4.0-2ubuntu1.3
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7070-1 (Advisory)
Child vulnerabilities
(Contains the following vulnerabilities)
- collector/usn
- source/Ubuntu
- agent/software-canonical-lookup
- agent/weakness
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/references
- agent/title
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/severity
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/description
- agent/type
- agent/event
- agent/tags
- agent/trending
- package-manager/ubuntu
- vendor/ubuntu
- canonical/ubuntu ubuntu
- version/ubuntu ubuntu/24.04
- version/ubuntu ubuntu/22.04
- version/ubuntu ubuntu/20.04
- version/ubuntu ubuntu/18.04
- version/ubuntu ubuntu/16.04
- version/ubuntu ubuntu/14.04