VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-5418

high
Published 2016-09-21 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

The sandboxing code in libarchive 3.2.0 and earlier mishandles hardlink archive entries of non-zero data size, which might allow remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted archive file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
redhat Red Hat Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
7.0 Affected —
6.0 Affected —
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 3.2.1-4
sid Fixed 3.2.1-4
forky Fixed 3.2.1-4
bullseye Fixed 3.2.1-4
bookworm Fixed 3.2.1-4

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
redhat redhatopenshift3.1
redhat redhatopenshift3.2
libarchivelibarchive{"endIncluding":"3.2.0"}

References

CWEs

CWE-19 CWE-20

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

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