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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-11463

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.

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31 Oct 2026, 12:28 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2019-11463

core-osv · Original source

Published 23 Apr 2019, 03:29 UTC

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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