PT-2015-7834 · Libarchive+5 · Libarchive+5

Hanno Böck + 1 · Published 2015-12-31 · Updated 2023-09-12 · CVE-2015-8921

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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 (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted mtree file. This is due to a problem in the ae strtofflags function in archive entry.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-2015-8921

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

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1850.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8920 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8921 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-8921 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8925 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8928 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-1844.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8924 · Vendor Advisory
• 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