CVE-2018-1000877 - log back

CVE-2018-1000877 created at 25 Sep 2019 19:31:40
Severity
+ High
Remote
+ Local
Type
+ Arbitrary code execution
Description
+ A double-free issue has been found in libarchive >= 3.1.0 and <=3.3.3, in the parse_codes() function in archive_read_support_format_rar.c. An attacker can use a specially crafted RAR file to cause a call to realloc with a size of 0, effectively freeing the memory which will be freed again at a later time.
References
+ https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libarchive/+bug/1794909
+ https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1105
+ https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/021efa522ad729ff0f5806c4ce53e4a6cc1daa31
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