CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-5418
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-09-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-19, CWE-20
Description
The sandboxing code in libarchive 3.2.0 and earlier mishandles hardlink archive entries of non-zero data size, which might allow remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted archive file.
Affected configurations
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 6.0
• redhat enterprise linux hpc node 6.0
• redhat enterprise linux server 6.0
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 6.0
• oracle linux 6
• oracle linux 7
• redhat openshift 3.1
• redhat openshift 3.2
• 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 · not in database (1)
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1844.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1850.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/09/2 Exploit, Technical Description
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93165 www.securityfocus.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1852 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1853 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1362601 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://gist.github.com/anonymous/e48209b03f1dd9625a992717e7b89c4f Exploit, Technical Description
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/dfd6b54ce33960e420fb206d8872fb759b577ad9 Patch
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/746 Exploit, Patch
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-03 security.gentoo.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1844.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1850.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/09/2 Exploit, Technical Description
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93165 www.securityfocus.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1852 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1853 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1362601 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://gist.github.com/anonymous/e48209b03f1dd9625a992717e7b89c4f Exploit, Technical Description
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/dfd6b54ce33960e420fb206d8872fb759b577ad9 Patch
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/746 Exploit, Patch
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-03 security.gentoo.org