PT-2016-6153 · Libarchive+5 · Libarchive+5

Vah13 · Published 2016-06-17 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-4809

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 3.2.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash. This can be achieved by using a CPIO archive with a large symlink.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.2.1, update to version 3.2.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1654

CESA-2016_1844

CESA-2016_1850

CVE-2016-4809

DLA-554-1

DSA-3657-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2036-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10127-1

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 · 98

• https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/fd7e0c02 · Patch
• https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/705 · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8920 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1850.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4809 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4809 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8925 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8928 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8924 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-1844.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4809 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8921 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8922 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10127-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:1909-1 · Vendor Advisory