#VU98562 Resource exhaustion in libarchive
Published: October 15, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU98562
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: N/A
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
libarchive
libarchive
Software vendor:
libarchive
libarchive
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when processing gzip archives. A remote attacker can pass a malformed gzip inside a gzip archive with an extremely large filename field and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.