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Ubuntu: USN-3225-1 (CVE-2016-8689): libarchive vulnerabilities

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Severity

CVSS

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

Published

Nov 25, 2016

Added

Mar 10, 2017

Modified

Mar 27, 2026

Description

The read_Header function in archive_read_support_format_7zip.c in libarchive 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via multiple EmptyStream attributes in a header in a 7zip archive.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-libarchive12ubuntu-upgrade-libarchive13

References

CVE-2016-8689
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-8689
CWE-125
DEBIAN-DLA-661-1
EUVD-EUVD-2016-9528
NVD-CVE-2016-8689
UBUNTU-USN-3225-1
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-9528

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