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NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libarchive  (opens in a new tab)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-623697
  • published20 Sept 2016
  • disclosed20 Sept 2016
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Introduced: 20 Sep 2016

CVE-2015-8916  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (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.

bsdtar in libarchive before 3.2.0 returns a success code without filling the entry when the header is a "split file in multivolume RAR," which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a crafted rar file.