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Oracle Linux: CVE-2016-5418: ELSA-2016-1844: libarchive security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

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Oracle Linux: CVE-2016-5418: ELSA-2016-1844: libarchive security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
09/12/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/12/2016
Modified
07/22/2024

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. A flaw was found in the way libarchive handled hardlink archive entries of non-zero size. Combined with flaws in libarchive's file system sandboxing, this issue could cause an application using libarchive to overwrite arbitrary files with arbitrary data from the archive.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-bsdcpio
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-bsdtar
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libarchive
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libarchive-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libinput-devel

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