PT-2015-7838 · Libarchive+5 · Libarchive+5

Hanno Böck + 1 · Published 2015-12-31 · Updated 2018-01-05 · CVE-2015-8925

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 is related to the readline function in archive read support format mtree.c, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service due to invalid read operations. This is triggered by a crafted mtree file, specifically related to newline parsing.

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

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1654

CESA-2016_1844

CVE-2015-8925

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 · 83

• 🔥 https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/516 · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8920 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8925 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8925 · Security Note
• 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
• 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://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-8925 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8925 · Vendor Advisory