PT-2015-7841 · Libarchive+5 · Libarchive+5

Hanno Böck · Published 2015-12-31 · Updated 2018-01-05 · CVE-2015-8930

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, resulting in an infinite loop. This can be triggered by an ISO with a directory that is a member of itself.

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

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1654

CESA-2016_1844

CVE-2015-8930

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/522 · Patch
• 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://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
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8919 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4302 · Vendor Advisory