VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-8930

high
Published 2016-09-20 · Modified 2026-05-06
💬 Discuss on Community ✚ Propose mitigation
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

bsdtar in libarchive before 3.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an ISO with a directory that is a member of itself.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
12 Affected —
— Affected —
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
16.04 Affected —
15.10 Affected —
14.04 Affected —
12.04 Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 3.2.0-2
sid Fixed 3.2.0-2
forky Fixed 3.2.0-2
bullseye Fixed 3.2.0-2
bookworm Fixed 3.2.0-2

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
libarchivelibarchive{"endIncluding":"3.1.901a"}

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.