vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2015-8916: Security patch for libarchive (ALAS-2016-743)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
2016-09-20
Added
2016-09-27
Modified
2018-02-02

Description

bsdtar in libarchive before 3.2.0 returns a success code without filling the entry when the header is a "split file in multivolume RAR," which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a crafted rar file.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-libarchive
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