Bug 1449530 – CVE-2016-10350 libarchive: Heap-based buffer over-read in the archive_read_format_cab_read_header function

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Bug 1449530 - (CVE-2016-10350) CVE-2016-10350 libarchive: Heap-based buffer over-read in the archive_read_format_cab_read_header function

Summary:	CVE-2016-10350 libarchive: Heap-based buffer over-read in the archive_read_fo...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2016-10350

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1449532 1449531 1449533
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Reported:	2017-05-10 04:41 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2018-06-01 07:14 EDT (History)
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Fixed In Version:	libarchive 3.3.0
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-05-10 04:41:31 EDT

The archive_read_format_cab_read_header function in archive_read_support_format_cab.c in libarchive 3.2.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted file.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/835

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-05-10 04:42:24 EDT

Created libarchive tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1449531]


Created libarchive3 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-6 [bug 1449532]


Created mingw-libarchive tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1449533]

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