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.

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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.

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Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:15:00 +0000

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Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:30:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title Libarchive: libarchive: denial of service via malformed iso file processing
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
Redhat openshift
Weaknesses CWE-1335
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
Redhat openshift
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2026-03-19T13:53:39.318Z

Reserved: 2026-03-19T12:43:31.427Z

Link: CVE-2026-4426

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-03-19T15:16:28.510

Modified: 2026-03-19T15:16:28.510

Link: CVE-2026-4426

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2026-03-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2026-4426 - Bugzilla

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