CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-7166
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-09-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• 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
• libarchive libarchive (<= 3.1.901a)
• 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
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
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/2016/09/08/15 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/08/18 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92901 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207362 Issue Tracking
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1347086 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/6e06b1c89dd0d16f74894eac4cfc1327a06ee4a0 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/660 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- 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/2016/09/08/15 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/08/18 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92901 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207362 Issue Tracking
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1347086 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/6e06b1c89dd0d16f74894eac4cfc1327a06ee4a0 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/660 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-03 security.gentoo.org