Resource Management Errors Affecting libarchive package, versions [,3.2.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.38% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBARCHIVE-2318945
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed21 Sept 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-7166  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libarchive to version 3.2.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors 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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1