CVE-2021-36976 (GCVE-0-2021-36976)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-07-20 06:49 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:45
VLAI?
Summary
libarchive 3.4.1 through 3.5.1 has a use-after-free in copy_string (called from do_uncompress_block and process_block).
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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