libarchive is a library for manipulating different streaming archive
formats, including certain tar variants, several cpio formats, and both
BSD and GNU ar variants.
== Affected software ==
bsdtar
== Version ==
All tests were performed using commit
296efb3db188fa4bf7b0e7b5c61d404f9145f0ab
== Description ==
Initial fuzzing was performed using afl-fuzzer
Using a crafted tar file bsdtar can perform an out-of-bounds memory…
Curiously we had the same problem when we tried to communicate to
Wordpress the vulnerability CVE-2014-9034
(https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-9034). We
tried, repeatedly, to contact WP through HackerOne and email, but did
not respond. Only through the intervention of the CERT/CC, and last
about six months they showed the necessary interest.
“A few hours ago, the WordPress team was made aware of a cross-site
scripting vulnerability, which could enable commenters to compromise a
site. The vulnerability was discovered by Jouko Pynnönen.“