A flaw was found in the way libarchive handled hardlink archive entries of non-zero size. Combined with flaws in libarchive's file system sandboxing, this issue could cause an application using libarchive to overwrite arbitrary files with arbitrary data from the archive.
Find out more about CVE-2016-5418 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
| Base Score | 4.6 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | High |
| Authentication | Single |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
| CVSS3 Base Score | 7.5 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | High |
| Privileges Required | Low |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | High |
| Integrity Impact | High |
| Availability Impact | High |
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| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.2 | RHSA-2016:1853 | 2016-09-12 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (libarchive) | RHSA-2016:1850 | 2016-09-12 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (libarchive) | RHSA-2016:1844 | 2016-09-12 |
| Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1 (atomic-openshift) | RHSA-2016:1852 | 2016-09-12 |
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