CVSS 3.1
6.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2019-1000020
Medium (6.5). EPSS 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
libarchive version commit 5a98dcf8a86364b3c2c469c85b93647dfb139961 onwards (version v2.8.0 onwards) contains a CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') vulnerability in ISO9660 parser, archive_read_support_format_iso9660.c, read_CE()/parse_rockridge() that can result in DoS by infinite loop. This attack appears to be exploitable via the victim opening a specially crafted ISO9660 file.
Severity
- EPSS
- 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 88% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-835
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
- libarchive:libarchive
- opensuse:leap
- redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop
- redhat:enterprise_linux_server
- redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00055.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00012.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00015.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2298
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3698