CVE-2026-4426 PUBLISHED

Libarchive: libarchive: denial of service via malformed iso file processing

Assigner: redhat
Reserved: 19.03.2026 Published: 19.03.2026 Updated: 19.03.2026

A flaw was found in libarchive. An Undefined Behavior vulnerability exists in the zisofs decompression logic, caused by improper validation of a field (pz_log2_bs) read from ISO9660 Rock Ridge extensions. A remote attacker can exploit this by supplying a specially crafted ISO file. This can lead to incorrect memory allocation and potential application crashes, resulting in a denial-of-service (DoS) condition.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 6.5

Product Status

Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Versions Default: affected
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Versions Default: unknown
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Versions Default: affected
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Versions Default: affected
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Versions Default: affected
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
Versions Default: affected

Workarounds

To mitigate this issue, avoid processing untrusted ISO9660 images with libarchive. Restricting the sources of ISO files and ensuring they originate from trusted entities can prevent exploitation.

Credits

  • Red Hat would like to thank Elhanan Haenel for reporting this issue.

References

Problem Types

  • Incorrect Bitwise Shift of Integer CWE