Denial Of Service (DoS)

libarchive is vulnerable to denial of service DoS attacks. This is caused when a corrupted cpio archive has a ridiculously large size for a symlink. malloc fails here when trying to allocate memory to contain the entire symlink which allows remote attackers to affect the availability of the...

ALPINE-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...

DEBIAN-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...

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...