CVE-2018-1000877 is a high-severity double free vulnerability (CWE-415) affecting libarchive versions 3.1.0 and later, impacting products like Canonical, Debian, FedoraProject, and Red Hat. This flaw, located in the RAR decoder, can lead to a denial-of-service (DoS) or system crash when a victim opens a specially crafted RAR archive. With a CVSS score of 8.8, it presents a high risk due to its network-based attack vector and low attack complexity, requiring user interaction. Currently, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 3.1.0, < 3.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:libarchive:libarchive:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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