PT-2015-7835 · Libarchive+5 · Libarchive+5

Hanno Böck · Published 2015-12-31 · Updated 2023-09-12 · CVE-2015-8922

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 a crash, by providing a crafted 7z file. This is related to the 7z folder struct in the archive read support format 7zip.c file, specifically affecting the read CodersInfo function.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.2.0, update to version 3.2.0 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider avoiding the use of crafted 7z files that could trigger the denial of service.

Fix

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1654

CESA-2016_1844

CVE-2015-8922

DLA-554-1

DSA-3657-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2036-1

RHSA-2016:1844

RHSA-2016_1844

SUSE-SU-2016:1909-1

USN-3033-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

Libarchive

References · 84

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8920 · 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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8922 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8921 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8922 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-8922 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00025.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:1909-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8917 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8932 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8919 · Vendor Advisory