Denial Of Service (DoS) Through Stack Buffer Overflow

libarchive.so is vulnerable to denial of service DoS through stack-based buffer overflow attacks. The vulnerability exists in safefprintf of tar/util.c when printing a filename can cause a buffer overflow when formatting a non-printable multi-byte character...

CVE-2016-8687

Stack-based buffer overflow in the safefprintf function in tar/util.c in libarchive 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted non-printable multibyte character in a filename...