Libarchive vulnerabilities

By year

Bars are flaws published each year; the red part is the share attackers have used.

Latest high and critical flaws

• CVE-2024-48615 Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability in libarchive 3.7.6 and earlier when running program bsdtar in function header_pax_extension at rchive_read_support_formaHigh 7.5 · Mar 28, 2025
• CVE-2024-48958 execute_filter_delta in archive_read_support_format_rar.c in libarchive before 3.7.5 allows out-of-bounds access via a crafted archive file because src can moveHigh 7.8 · Oct 9, 2024
• CVE-2024-48957 execute_filter_audio in archive_read_support_format_rar.c in libarchive before 3.7.5 allows out-of-bounds access via a crafted archive file because src can moveHigh 7.8 · Oct 9, 2024
• CVE-2024-37407 Libarchive before 3.7.4 allows name out-of-bounds access when a ZIP archive has an empty-name file and mac-ext is enabled.Critical 9.1 · Jun 8, 2024
• CVE-2022-36227 In libarchive before 3.6.2, the software does not check for an error after calling calloc function that can return with a NULL pointer if the function fails, whCritical 9.8 · Nov 21, 2022
• CVE-2021-31566 An improper link resolution flaw can occur while extracting an archive leading to changing modes, times, access control lists, and flags of a file outside of thHigh 7.8 · Aug 23, 2022
• CVE-2021-23177 An improper link resolution flaw while extracting an archive can lead to changing the access control list (ACL) of the target of the link.High 7.8 · Aug 23, 2022
• CVE-2020-9308 archive_read_support_format_rar5.c in libarchive before 3.4.2 attempts to unpack a RAR5 file with an invalid or corrupted header (such as a header size of zero)High 8.8 · Feb 20, 2020
• CVE-2019-18408 archive_read_format_rar_read_data in archive_read_support_format_rar.c in libarchive before 3.4.0 has a use-after-free in a certain ARCHIVE_FAILED situation, reHigh 7.5 · Oct 24, 2019
• CVE-2018-1000878 libarchive version commit 416694915449219d505531b1096384f3237dd6cc onwards (release v3.1.0 onwards) contains a CWE-416: Use After Free vulnerability in RAR decoHigh 8.8 · Dec 20, 2018
• CVE-2018-1000877 libarchive version commit 416694915449219d505531b1096384f3237dd6cc onwards (release v3.1.0 onwards) contains a CWE-415: Double Free vulnerability in RAR decoderHigh 8.8 · Dec 20, 2018
• CVE-2017-14502 read_header in archive_read_support_format_rar.c in libarchive 3.3.2 suffers from an off-by-one error for UTF-16 names in RAR archives, leading to an out-of-bouHigh 7.5 · Sep 17, 2017
• CVE-2016-8689 The read_Header function in archive_read_support_format_7zip.c in libarchive 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) viaHigh 7.5 · Feb 15, 2017
• CVE-2016-8687 Stack-based buffer overflow in the safe_fprintf function in tar/util.c in libarchive 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted noHigh 7.5 · Feb 15, 2017
• CVE-2017-5601 An error in the lha_read_file_header_1() function (archive_read_support_format_lha.c) in libarchive 3.2.2 allows remote attackers to trigger an out-of-bounds reHigh 7.5 · Jan 27, 2017
• CVE-2016-4301 Stack-based buffer overflow in the parse_device function in archive_read_support_format_mtree.c in libarchive before 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to execute arHigh 7.8 · Sep 21, 2016
• CVE-2016-4300 Integer overflow in the read_SubStreamsInfo function in archive_read_support_format_7zip.c in libarchive before 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitraHigh 7.8 · Sep 21, 2016
• CVE-2015-8931 Multiple integer overflows in the (1) get_time_t_max and (2) get_time_t_min functions in archive_read_support_format_mtree.c in libarchive before 3.2.0 allow reHigh 7.8 · Sep 20, 2016
• CVE-2016-1541 Heap-based buffer overflow in the zip_read_mac_metadata function in archive_read_support_format_zip.c in libarchive before 3.2.0 allows remote attackers to execHigh 8.8 · May 7, 2016