CVE-2019-18408

A use-after-free vulnerability was discovered in libarchive in the way it processes RAR archives when there is an error in one of the archive's entries. An application that accepts untrusted RAR archives may be vulnerable to this flaw, which could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service or to potentially execute code.

This issue did not affect the versions of libarchive as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as they did not include support for RAR archives.

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No known mitigation.