system/libarchive: CVE-2018-1000879: NULL pointer dereference

Bugzilla ID	220
Alias(es)	CVE-2018-1000879
Reporter	Max Rees (sroracle)
Assignee	Max Rees (sroracle)
Reported	2019-10-24 16:31:17 -0500
Modified	2019-10-24 16:32:27 -0500
Status	RESOLVED FIXED
Version	1.0-BETA3
Hardware	Adélie Linux / All
Importance	--- / normal
URL	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000879

Description

libarchive version commit 379867ecb330b3a952fb7bfa7bffb7bbd5547205
onwards (release v3.3.0 onwards) contains a CWE-476: NULL Pointer
Dereference vulnerability in ACL parser - libarchive/archive_acl.c,
archive_acl_from_text_l() that can result in Crash/DoS. This attack
appear to be exploitable via the victim must open a specially crafted
archive file.