CVE-2019-1000020

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

libarchive version commit 5a98dcf8a86364b3c2c469c85b93647dfb139961 onwards (version v2.8.0 onwards) contains a CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') vulnerability in ISO9660 parser, archive_read_support_format_iso9660.c, read_CE()/parse_rockridge() that can result in DoS by infinite loop. This attack appears to be exploitable via the victim opening a specially crafted ISO9660 file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-1000020

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-1000020.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201906-21

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed3.4.0-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed3.3.3-4
debian debianbullseyefixed3.3.3-4
debian debianforkyfixed3.3.3-4
debian debiansidfixed3.3.3-4
debian debiantrixiefixed3.3.3-4

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.