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Ubuntu: USN-3033-1 (CVE-2015-8921): libarchive vulnerabilities

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Jul 14, 2016

Added

Jul 14, 2016

Modified

Mar 27, 2026

Description

The ae_strtofflags function in archive_entry.c in libarchive before 3.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted mtree file.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-libarchive12ubuntu-upgrade-libarchive13

References

CVE-2015-8921
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2015-8921
CWE-125
DEBIAN-DLA-554-1
DEBIAN-DSA-3657
EUVD-EUVD-2015-8777
NVD-CVE-2015-8921
UBUNTU-USN-3033-1
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2015-8777

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