Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-743)

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...

CVE-2015-8916

bsdtar in libarchive before 3.2.0 returns a success code without filling the entry when the header is a "split file in multivolume RAR," which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and crash via a crafted rar file...

CVE-2015-8916

CVE-2015-8916 affects libarchive’s RAR parsing: a NULL pointer dereference can crash the application when encountering a crafted RAR header (split file in multivolume). IBM notes PowerKVM 3.1 is affected; remediation is to update PowerKVM systems (yum update) and apply the 3.1.0.2 update or later...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3033-1)

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 / 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...

CVE-2015-8916

A vulnerability was found in libarchive. A specially crafted RAR file could cause the application dereference a NULL pointer, leading to a crash...