CVE-2021-36976

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

libarchive 3.4.1 through 3.5.1 has a use-after-free in copy_string (called from do_uncompress_block and process_block).

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-2021-36976

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-36976.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed3.6.1-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed3.6.0-1
debian debianbullseyefixed3.4.3-2+deb11u2
debian debianforkyfixed3.6.0-1
debian debiansidfixed3.6.0-1
debian debiantrixiefixed3.6.0-1

References

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