Published: 20/09/2016 Updated: 12/09/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 383

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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The _ar_read_header function in archive_read_support_format_ar.c in libarchive prior to 3.2.0 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds stack read) via a crafted ar file.

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libarchive libarchive

libarchive could be made to crash or run programs if it opened a specially crafted file ...

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 ...

A vulnerability was found in libarchive A specially crafted AR archive could cause the application to read a single byte of application memory, potentially disclosing it to the attacker ...

CWE-125 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/17/2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3033-1 https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/47-Many-invalid-memory-access-issues-in-libarchive.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/17/5 https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/511 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00025.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91301 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-03 http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3657 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1850.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1844.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/3033-1/https://nvd.nist.gov

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