CVE-2024-37407

Publication date 8 June 2024

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Libarchive before 3.7.4 allows name out-of-bounds access when a ZIP archive has an empty-name file and mac-ext is enabled. This occurs in slurp_central_directory in archive_read_support_format_zip.c.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libarchive	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

introduced in 3.7.3 with: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/390d83012fdba8c8db7fc9915338805882b0597a

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
libarchive	Upstream: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2145 Upstream: b6a9794

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.1 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H