cve-2022-36227
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-11-22 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 10:00
Severity ?
Summary
In libarchive before 3.6.2, the software does not check for an error after calling calloc function that can return with a NULL pointer if the function fails, which leads to a resultant NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: the discoverer cites this CWE-476 remark but third parties dispute the code-execution impact: "In rare circumstances, when NULL is equivalent to the 0x0 memory address and privileged code can access it, then writing or reading memory is possible, which may lead to code execution."
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.gentoo.org/882521Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/blob/v3.0.0a/libarchive/archive_write.c#L215Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/1754Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00034.htmlThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/V67OO2UUQAUJS3IK4JZPF6F3LUCBU6IS/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-14Third Party Advisory
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