libarchive: Memory allocate error with symbolic links in cpio archives

A vulnerability was found in libarchive. A specially crafted cpio archive containing a symbolic link to a ridiculously large target path can cause memory allocation to fail, resulting in any attempt to view or extract the archive crashing...

libarchive: Memory allocate error with symbolic links in cpio archives

A vulnerability was found in libarchive. A specially crafted cpio archive containing a symbolic link to a ridiculously large target path can cause memory allocation to fail, resulting in any attempt to view or extract the archive crashing...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: libarchive security update

An update for libarchive is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fro...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : libarchive (SUSE-SU-2016:1909-1)

libarchive was updated to fix 20 security issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2015-8918: Overlapping memcpy in CAB parser bsc985698. - CVE-2015-8919: Heap out of bounds read in LHA/LZH parser bsc985697. - CVE-2015-8920: Stack out of bounds read in ar parser bsc985675. - CVE-2015-8921...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: mingw-libarchive-3.2.1-2.fc24

Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read several differ ent streaming archive formats, including most popular tar variants, several cpio formats, and both BSD and GNU ar variants. It can also write shar archives and read ISO9660 CDROM images and ZIP archives...

openSUSE Security Update : libarchive (openSUSE-2016-969)

libarchive was updated to fix 20 security issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2015-8918: Overlapping memcpy in CAB parser bsc985698. - CVE-2015-8919: Heap out of bounds read in LHA/LZH parser bsc985697. - CVE-2015-8920: Stack out of bounds read in ar parser bsc985675. - CVE-2015-8921...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: libarchive-3.2.1-3.fc24

Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read several differ ent streaming archive formats, including most popular tar variants, several cpio formats, and both BSD and GNU ar variants. It can also write shar archives and read ISO9660 CDROM images and ZIP archives...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : libarchive vulnerabilities (USN-3033-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3033-1 advisory. Hanno Bck discovered that libarchive contained multiple security issues when processing certain malformed archive files. A remote attacker...

USN-3033-1 libarchive vulnerabilities

Hanno Böck discovered that libarchive contained multiple security issues when processing certain malformed archive files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause libarchive to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2015-8916, CVE-2015-8917...

Vulnerabilities in the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that allow a remote attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information

The multiple vulnerabilities in the cpio package of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system may be exploited, which could lead to breaches of the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely...

libarchive CPIO Parser Memory Read Vulnerability

libarchive is a multi-format archive and compression library. A memory read vulnerability exists in libarchive's CPIO parser. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to cause an invalid memory read...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4809

The archivereadformatcpioreadheader function in archivereadsupportformatcpio.c in libarchive before 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a CPIO archive with a large symlink...

CVE-2016-4809

A vulnerability was found in libarchive. A specially crafted cpio archive containing a symbolic link to a ridiculously large target path can cause memory allocation to fail, resulting in any attempt to view or extract the archive crashing...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: libarchive-3.1.2-14.fc22

Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read several differ ent streaming archive formats, including most popular tar variants, several cpio formats, and both BSD and GNU ar variants. It can also write shar archives and read ISO9660 CDROM images and ZIP archives...

FreeBSD-SA-16:22.libarchive

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-16:22.libarchive Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Directory traversal in cpio1 Category: contrib Module: libarchive Announced: 2016-05-31 Credits:...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: libarchive-3.1.2-15.fc23

Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read several differ ent streaming archive formats, including most popular tar variants, several cpio formats, and both BSD and GNU ar variants. It can also write shar archives and read ISO9660 CDROM images and ZIP archives...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: libarchive-3.1.2-17.fc24

Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read several differ ent streaming archive formats, including most popular tar variants, several cpio formats, and both BSD and GNU ar variants. It can also write shar archives and read ISO9660 CDROM images and ZIP archives...

The vulnerability of the Spio archiving tool, which allows a perpetrator to trigger a service failure

The vulnerability of the cpiosafernamesuffix function in the Spio archiving utility is caused by buffer overflow. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker, operating remotely, to cause a service failure memory spill through the use of a specially created CPIO file...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2906-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : GNU cpio vulnerabilities (USN-2906-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2906-1 advisory. Alexander Cherepanov discovered that GNU cpio incorrectly handled symbolic links when used with the --no- absolute-filenames option. If a user or automat...