SB2024102824 - Denial of service in F5 Traffix SDC libarchive package
Published: October 28, 2024
Security Bulletin ID
SB2024102824
Severity
Low
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Improper input validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1000880)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in WARC parser - libarchive/archive_read_support_format_warc.c, _warc_read() that can result in DoS - quasi-infinite run time and disk usage from tiny file. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted RAR archive and cause the service to crash.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.