VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-1541

high
Published 2016-05-07 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.8

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the zip_read_mac_metadata function in archive_read_support_format_zip.c in libarchive before 3.2.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted entry-size values in a ZIP archive.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
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.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 3.1.2-11.1
sid Fixed 3.1.2-11.1
forky Fixed 3.1.2-11.1
bullseye Fixed 3.1.2-11.1
bookworm Fixed 3.1.2-11.1

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.