Out-of-Bounds Affecting libarchive package, versions [0,3.2.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.18% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBARCHIVE-2318951
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed15 Feb 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Feb 2017

CVE-2016-8687  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libarchive to version 3.2.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. Stack-based buffer overflow in the safe_fprintf function in tar/util.c in libarchive 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted non-printable multibyte character in a filename.

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CVSS Scores

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