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CVE-2015-8916

Published: 20/09/2016 Updated: 05/01/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 6.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 2.8
VMScore: 383
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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Vulnerability Summary

bsdtar in libarchive prior to 3.2.0 returns a success code without filling the entry when the header is a "split file in multivolume RAR," which allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a crafted rar file.

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Vendor Advisories

Ubuntu Security Notice: libarchive vulnerabilities
libarchive could be made to crash or run programs if it opened a specially crafted file ...
Amazon Linux AMI: ALAS-2016-743
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 (CVE-2016-5418) Multiple out-of-bounds write flaws were found in libarchive S ...
Red Hat: CVE-2015-8916
A vulnerability was found in libarchive A specially crafted RAR file could cause the application dereference a NULL pointer, leading to a crash ...

References

CWE-476http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/17/2https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/504http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3033-1https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/47-Many-invalid-memory-access-issues-in-libarchive.htmlhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/17/5https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8916http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91296https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-03http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3657http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1844.htmlhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3033-1/https://nvd.nist.gov
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