Improper Handling of Syntactically Invalid Structure Affecting libarchive package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.88% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-LIBARCHIVE-1357331
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed15 Sept 2016

Introduced: 15 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-8689  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-228  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 libarchive.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libarchive package and not the libarchive package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

The read_Header function in archive_read_support_format_7zip.c in libarchive 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via multiple EmptyStream attributes in a header in a 7zip archive.