Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libarchive (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-LIBARCHIVE-623694
- published10 Sept 2020
- disclosed20 Sept 2016
Introduced: 20 Sep 2016
CVE-2015-8918 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libarchive package and not the libarchive package as distributed by Ubuntu.
The archive_string_append function in archive_string.c in libarchive before 3.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted cab files, related to "overlapping memcpy."
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-8918
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91300
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/506
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-03
- https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/47-Many-invalid-memory-access-issues-in-libarchive.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/17/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/17/5
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00025.html