Medium
Security advisory
A memory leak in archive_read_format_zip_cleanup in archive_read_support_format_zip.c in libarchive 3.3.4-dev allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted ZIP file because of a HAVE_LZMA_H typo. NOTE: this only affects users who downloaded the development code from GitHub. Users of the product's official releases are unaffected.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-11463
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:28 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A memory leak in archive_read_format_zip_cleanup in archive_read_support_format_zip.c in libarchive 3.3.4-dev allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted ZIP file because of a HAVE_LZMA_H typo. NOTE: this only affects users who downloaded the development code from GitHub. Users of the product's official releases are unaffected.
osv:CVE-2019-11463
Complete source record
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