CVE-2020-21674 (GCVE-0-2020-21674)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-10-15 14:59
Modified
2024-08-04 14:30
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in archive_string_append_from_wcs() (archive_string.c) in libarchive-3.4.1dev allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write in heap memory resulting into a crash) via a crafted archive file. NOTE: this only affects users who downloaded the development code from GitHub. Users of the product's official releases are unaffected.
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