PT-2016-4062 · Libarchive+2 · Libarchive+2

Hanno Böck · Published 2016-06-29 · Updated 2017-07-01 · CVE-2015-8929

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 a memory leak in the archive read get extract function in archive read extract2.c in libarchive. This memory leak allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a manipulated tar file.

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

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1654

CVE-2015-8929

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2036-1

SUSE-SU-2016:1909-1

SUSE-SU-2016:1939-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Libarchive

References · 133

• 🔥 https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/517 · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8934 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5418 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8930 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8929 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6250 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4301 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7166 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00025.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8929 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1541 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8919 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8933 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8929 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:1909-1 · Vendor Advisory