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CVE-2011-1779

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-04-13 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in libarchive 2.8.4 and 2.8.5 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted (1) TAR archive or (2) ISO9660 image.

Affected products

• FreeBSD Libarchive: 2.8.4, 2.8.5

References

• http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/source/detail?r=3038
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=705849
• http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/source/detail?r=3038
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=705849

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