PT-2015-3348 · Libarchive+4 · Libarchive+4

Clausecker · Published 2015-01-10 · Updated 2019-12-27 · CVE-2016-7166

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libarchive versions prior to 3.2.0

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in memory consumption and application crash, through a crafted gzip file. This is due to an error in resource management, specifically the lack of limits on the number of nested archives during unpacking.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.2.0, update to version 3.2.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1654

BDU:2018-00005

CESA-2016_1844

CESA-2016_1850

CVE-2016-7166

DLA-617-1

DSA-3677-1

RHSA-2016:1844

RHSA-2016:1850

RHSA-2016_1844

RHSA-2016_1850

USN-3225-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Red Hat

Ubuntu

Libarchive

References · 30

• https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/660 · Patch
• https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/6e06b1c89dd0d16f74894eac4cfc1327a06ee4a0 · Patch
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1850.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5418 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7166 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-7166 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7166 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3225-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1844.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-8687 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7166 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3677-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7166 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2018-00005 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5601 · Vendor Advisory