{"id":"OESA-2022-2126","summary":"libarchive security update","details":"is an open-source BSD-licensed C programming library that  provides streaming access to a variety of different archive formats, including tar, cpio, pax, zip, and ISO9660 images. The distribution  also includes bsdtar and bsdcpio, full-featured implementations of  tar and cpio that use .\r\n\r\nSecurity Fix(es):\r\n\r\nIn libarchive 3.6.1, the software does not check for an error after calling calloc function that can return with a NULL pointer if the function fails, which leads to a resultant NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: the discoverer cites this CWE-476 remark but third parties dispute the code-execution impact: "In rare circumstances, when NULL is equivalent to the 0x0 memory address and privileged code can access it, then writing or reading memory is possible, which may lead to code execution."(CVE-2022-36227)","modified":"2026-03-11T06:29:01.253448Z","published":"2022-12-02T11:04:40Z","upstream":["CVE-2022-36227"],"database_specific":{"severity":"Critical"},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bulletin/detail.html?id=openEuler-SA-2022-2126"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-36227"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"libarchive","ecosystem":"openEuler:20.03-LTS-SP1","purl":"pkg:rpm/openEuler/libarchive&distro=openEuler-20.03-LTS-SP1"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.4.3-6.oe1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"noarch":["libarchive-help-3.4.3-6.oe1.noarch.rpm"],"aarch64":["libarchive-debuginfo-3.4.3-6.oe1.aarch64.rpm","libarchive-devel-3.4.3-6.oe1.aarch64.rpm","libarchive-debugsource-3.4.3-6.oe1.aarch64.rpm","libarchive-3.4.3-6.oe1.aarch64.rpm"],"x86_64":["libarchive-debuginfo-3.4.3-6.oe1.x86_64.rpm","libarchive-3.4.3-6.oe1.x86_64.rpm","libarchive-debugsource-3.4.3-6.oe1.x86_64.rpm","libarchive-devel-3.4.3-6.oe1.x86_64.rpm"],"src":["libarchive-3.4.3-6.oe1.src.rpm"]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://repo.openeuler.org/security/data/osv/OESA-2022-2126.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}