Source: libarchive
Version: 3.2.2-2
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Control: found -1 3.3.3-1

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for libarchive.

CVE-2018-1000880[0]:
| libarchive version commit 9693801580c0cf7c70e862d305270a16b52826a7
| onwards (release v3.2.0 onwards) contains a CWE-20: Improper Input
| Validation vulnerability in WARC parser -
| libarchive/archive_read_support_format_warc.c, _warc_read() that can
| result in DoS - quasi-infinite run time and disk usage from tiny file.
| This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim must open a
| specially crafted WARC file.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1000880
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1000880
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libarchive/+bug/1794909
[2] https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1105
[3] 
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1105/commits/9c84b7426660c09c18cc349f6d70b5f8168b5680

Regards,
Salvatore

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