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CVSSv2

CVE-2015-8931

Published: 20/09/2016 Updated: 05/01/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 605
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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Vulnerability Summary

Multiple integer overflows in the (1) get_time_t_max and (2) get_time_t_min functions in archive_read_support_format_mtree.c in libarchive prior to 3.2.0 allow remote malicious users to have unspecified impact via a crafted mtree file, which triggers undefined behavior.

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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-2015-8931
Undefined behavior (signed integer overflow) was discovered in libarchive, in the MTREE parser's calculation of maximum and minimum dates A crafted mtree file could potentially cause denial of service ...

References

CWE-190http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/17/2https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/539http://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/2016/06/17/5http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00025.htmlhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8931http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91338https://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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