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Ubuntu: USN-3225-1 (CVE-2016-5418): libarchive vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Sep 21, 2016
Added
Mar 10, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-libarchive12ubuntu-upgrade-libarchive13
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