Bug 1347086 (CVE-2016-7166) - CVE-2016-7166 libarchive: Denial of service using a crafted gzip file
Summary: CVE-2016-7166 libarchive: Denial of service using a crafted gzip file
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-7166
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1352775 1352776 1353065 1353066 1353067 1353068
Blocks: 1334215
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-06-16 02:35 UTC by Doran Moppert
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:51 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libarchive 3.2.0
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:55:01 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:1844 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: libarchive security update 2016-09-13 00:11:35 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:1850 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: libarchive security update 2016-09-12 23:54:24 UTC

Description Doran Moppert 2016-06-16 02:35:40 UTC 
A specially crafted gzip file can cause libarchive to allocate memory
without limit, eventually leading to a crash.

External references:
    https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/660

Upstream fix:
    https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/6e06b1c89
Comment 4 Doran Moppert 2016-07-05 04:36:52 UTC 
Created libarchive tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-5 [bug 1352775]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1352776]
Comment 8 Pavel Raiskup 2016-07-08 07:38:50 UTC 
FTR: Not back-porting follow-up patch 37649d274867edd2dd25d8a3057c3b6cd81ce83e
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2016-09-12 19:56:17 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2016:1850 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1850.html
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2016-09-12 20:13:14 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2016:1844 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1844.html
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