PT-2015-7833 · Libarchive+5 · Libarchive+5

Hanno Böck · Published 2015-12-31 · Updated 2023-09-12 · CVE-2015-8920

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, specifically an out-of-bounds stack read, by using a crafted ar file. This is due to a problem in the ar read header function in archive read support format ar.c.

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

Fix

DoS

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1654

CESA-2016_1844

CESA-2016_1850

CVE-2015-8920

DLA-554-1

DSA-3657-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2036-1

RHSA-2016:1844

RHSA-2016:1850

RHSA-2016_1844

RHSA-2016_1850

SUSE-SU-2016:1909-1

SUSE-SU-2016:1939-1

USN-3033-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

Libarchive

References · 89

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8920 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1850.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-8920 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8925 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8928 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8924 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-1844.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8920 · Security Note
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3033-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8921 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8922 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:1909-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00025.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8917 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8932 · Vendor Advisory