CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-4301
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-119
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the parse_device function in archive_read_support_format_mtree.c in libarchive before 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted mtree file.
Affected configurations
• libarchive libarchive (<= 3.2.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/the-poisoned-archives.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91328 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0153/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1348441 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/a550daeecf6bc689ade371349892ea17b5b97c77 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/715 Issue Tracking, Patch
- 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://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91328 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0153/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1348441 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/a550daeecf6bc689ade371349892ea17b5b97c77 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/715 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-03 security.gentoo.org