Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libarchive  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-LIBARCHIVE-622851
  • published7 May 2016
  • disclosed7 May 2016

Introduced: 7 May 2016

CVE-2016-1541  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libarchive package and not the libarchive package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the zip_read_mac_metadata function in archive_read_support_format_zip.c in libarchive before 3.2.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted entry-size values in a ZIP archive.