CVE-2018-1000878: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

libarchive version commit 416694915449219d505531b1096384f3237dd6cc onwards (release v3.1.0 onwards) contains a CWE-416: Use After Free vulnerability in RAR decoder - libarchive/archive_read_support_format_rar.c that can result in Crash/DoS - it is unknown if RCE is possible. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim must open a specially crafted RAR archive.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 18.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 28 only; version 29 only; version 30 only
• Libarchive Libarchive: from 3.1.0, before 3.4.0 (fixed in 3.4.0)
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only

Published 2018-12-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.