Oracle Linux: (CVE-2016-7166) (Multiple Advisories): libarchive security update
4
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
09/12/2016
07/25/2018
07/01/2017
06/22/2020
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.
Solution(s)
- oracle-linux-upgrade-bsdcpio
- oracle-linux-upgrade-bsdtar
- oracle-linux-upgrade-libarchive
- oracle-linux-upgrade-libarchive-devel
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