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FKIE_CVE-2011-1779

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2012-04-13 20:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:30

Severity

Summary

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in libarchive 2.8.4 and 2.8.5 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted (1) TAR archive or (2) ISO9660 image.

References

	URL	Tags
	secalert@redhat.com	http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/source/detail?r=3038
	secalert@redhat.com	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=705849
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/source/detail?r=3038
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=705849

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	freebsd	libarchive	2.8.4
	freebsd	libarchive	2.8.5

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CVE-2011-1779 (GCVE-0-2011-1779)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-04-13 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:37

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat redhat root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/source/detail…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=705849	x_refsource_CONFIRM

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