CVE-2020-21674

medium

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in archive_string_append_from_wcs() (archive_string.c) in libarchive-3.4.1dev allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write in heap memory resulting into a crash) via a crafted archive file. NOTE: this only affects users who downloaded the development code from GitHub. Users of the product's official releases are unaffected.

References

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/1298

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/4f085eea879e2be745f4d9bf57e8513ae48157f4

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-10-15

Updated: 2020-10-26

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium