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Red Hat: CVE-2016-8688: libarchive: heap based buffer overflow in detect_form (archive_read_support_format_mtree.c)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 15, 2016
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

libarchive: heap based buffer overflow in detect_form (archive_read_support_format_mtree.c)

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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