vulnerability

CentOS: (CVE-2015-8917) CESA-2016:1844: libarchive

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 16, 2016
Added
Sep 16, 2016
Modified
May 7, 2019

Description

bsdtar in libarchive before 3.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via an invalid character in the name of a cab file.

Solutions

centos-upgrade-bsdcpiocentos-upgrade-bsdtarcentos-upgrade-libarchivecentos-upgrade-libarchive-devel
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