PT-2016-6415 · Libarchive+5 · Libarchive+5

Kientzle · Published 2016-06-29 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-5418

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:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libarchive versions 3.2.0 and earlier

Description The issue is related to the sandboxing code in libarchive, which incorrectly handles hardlink archive entries with non-zero data size. This could potentially allow remote attackers to write to arbitrary files by using a crafted archive file.

Recommendations For libarchive versions 3.2.0 and earlier, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

CWE-19

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1654

CESA-2016_1844

CESA-2016_1850

CVE-2016-5418

DLA-657-1

DSA-3677-1

MGASA-2016-0318

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10127-1

RHSA-2016:1844

RHSA-2016:1850

RHSA-2016:1852

RHSA-2016:1853

RHSA-2016_1844

RHSA-2016_1850

SUSE-SU-2016:2911-1

USN-3225-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

Libarchive

References · 65

• 🔥 https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/746 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/09/2 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://gist.github.com/anonymous/e48209b03f1dd9625a992717e7b89c4f · Exploit
• https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/dfd6b54ce33960e420fb206d8872fb759b577ad9 · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5418 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1850.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5418 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5418 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2911-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1844.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0318.html · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-8687 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3677-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0318 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5601 · Vendor Advisory