vulnerability

CentOS: (CVE-2016-1541) CESA-2016:1844: libarchive

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

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the zip_read_mac_metadata function in archive_read_support_format_zip.c in libarchive before 3.2.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted entry-size values in a ZIP archive.

Solutions

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