Denial Of Service (DoS)

libarchive.so is vulnerable to denial of service DoS attacks. A malicious user can pass a tar file to the compressbidderinit function in archivereadsupportfiltercompress.c, causing an invalid left shift that can crash the application...

CVE-2015-8932

The compressbidderinit function in archivereadsupportfiltercompress.c in libarchive before 3.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a crafted tar file, which triggers an invalid left shift...

CVE-2015-8932

The CVE-2015-8932 issue affects the libarchive library, specifically the compress_bidder_init function in archive_read_support_filter_compress.c, before version 3.2.0. A crafted tar file can trigger an invalid left shift, allowing a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (crash). Public ref...