CVE-2013-0211

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-09-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer signedness error in the archive_write_zip_data function in archive_write_set_format_zip.c in libarchive 3.1.2 and earlier, when running on 64-bit machines, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors, which triggers an improper conversion between unsigned and signed types, leading to a buffer overflow.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 14.10
Fedoraproject Fedora: 17, 18
FreeBSD: 9.3
libarchive: through 3.1.2
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101687.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101700.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101872.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101876.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00065.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:147
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58926
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035995
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2549-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902998
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/22531545514043e04633e1c015c7540b9de9dbe4
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:23.libarchive.asc

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