CVE-2019-11463 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service via crafted ZIP files due to a memory leak in specific development builds of libarchive.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2019-11463?
CVE-2019-11463 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Libarchive Libarchive, published on 23 Apr 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
A memory leak in archive_read_format_zip_cleanup in archive_read_support_format_zip.c in libarchive 3.3.4-dev allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted ZIP file because of a HAVE_LZMA_H typo. NOTE: this only affects users who downloaded the development code from GitHub. Users of the product's official releases are unaffected.
Weakness: CWE-401
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-11463?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Libarchive Libarchive.
How do I fix CVE-2019-11463?
No fix has been published for CVE-2019-11463 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2019-11463 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-11463 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Libarchive Libarchive
Sources
Also known as GHSA-v36x-fh5g-gvf8.