Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in libarchive | CVE-2016-7166

Q: How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 libarchive to version 0:3.1.2-10.el7_2 or higher. This issue was patched in RHSA-2016:1844 .

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Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-LIBARCHIVE-4612492
published26 Jul 2021
disclosed22 Feb 2016

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Introduced: 22 Feb 2016

CVE-2016-7166 (opens in a new tab) CWE-770 (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 libarchive to version 0:3.1.2-10.el7_2 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2016:1844.

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.

libarchive before 3.2.0 does not limit the number of recursive decompressions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a crafted gzip file.

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting libarchive package, versions <0:3.1.2-10.el7_2

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