OESA-2022-2123 (CVE-2022-36227)
Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2022-12-02 11:05 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:05 – Source websiteis an open-source BSD-licensed C programming library that provides streaming access to a variety of different archive formats, including tar, cpio, pax, zip, and ISO9660 images. The distribution also includes bsdtar and bsdcpio, full-featured implementations of tar and cpio that use .
Security Fix(es):
In libarchive 3.6.1, 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."(CVE-2022-36227)
| URL | Type | |
|---|---|---|
{
"affected": [
{
"ecosystem_specific": {
"aarch64": [
"libarchive-debuginfo-3.4.3-6.oe1.aarch64.rpm",
"libarchive-devel-3.4.3-6.oe1.aarch64.rpm",
"libarchive-debugsource-3.4.3-6.oe1.aarch64.rpm",
"libarchive-3.4.3-6.oe1.aarch64.rpm"
],
"noarch": [
"libarchive-help-3.4.3-6.oe1.noarch.rpm"
],
"src": [
"libarchive-3.4.3-6.oe1.src.rpm"
],
"x86_64": [
"libarchive-debuginfo-3.4.3-6.oe1.x86_64.rpm",
"libarchive-3.4.3-6.oe1.x86_64.rpm",
"libarchive-debugsource-3.4.3-6.oe1.x86_64.rpm",
"libarchive-devel-3.4.3-6.oe1.x86_64.rpm"
]
},
"package": {
"ecosystem": "openEuler:20.03-LTS-SP3",
"name": "libarchive",
"purl": "pkg:rpm/openEuler/libarchive\u0026distro=openEuler-20.03-LTS-SP3"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "3.4.3-6.oe1"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
]
}
],
"database_specific": {
"severity": "Critical"
},
"details": "is an open-source BSD-licensed C programming library that provides streaming access to a variety of different archive formats, including tar, cpio, pax, zip, and ISO9660 images. The distribution also includes bsdtar and bsdcpio, full-featured implementations of tar and cpio that use .\r\n\r\nSecurity Fix(es):\r\n\r\nIn libarchive 3.6.1, 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: \u0026quot;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.\u0026quot;(CVE-2022-36227)",
"id": "OESA-2022-2123",
"modified": "2026-08-06T11:05:26Z",
"published": "2022-12-02T11:05:26Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bulletin/detail.html?id=openEuler-SA-2022-2123"
},
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-36227"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.7.2",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
],
"summary": "libarchive security update",
"upstream": [
"CVE-2022-36227"
]
}
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