CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-4300
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-09-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-190
Description
Integer overflow in the read_SubStreamsInfo function in archive_read_support_format_7zip.c in libarchive before 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a 7zip file with a large number of substreams, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Affected configurations
• libarchive libarchive (<= 3.2.0)
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux hpc node 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux hpc node eus 7.2
• redhat enterprise linux server 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.2
• redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.2
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
References
- http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/the-poisoned-archives.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1844.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3657 www.debian.org
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91326 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0152/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1348439 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/e79ef306afe332faf22e9b442a2c6b59cb175573 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/718 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00062&languageid=en-fr security-center.intel.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-03 security.gentoo.org
- http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/the-poisoned-archives.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1844.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3657 www.debian.org
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91326 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0152/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1348439 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/e79ef306afe332faf22e9b442a2c6b59cb175573 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/718 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00062&languageid=en-fr security-center.intel.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-03 security.gentoo.org