CVE-2016-5844
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS v4 NEW
—
VIR risk
6.5
Description
Integer overflow in the ISO parser in libarchive before 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted ISO file.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
75%
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 withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Red Hat Affected 2 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | Affected | — |
| 6.0 | Affected | — |
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 3.2.1-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 3.2.1-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 3.2.1-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 3.2.1-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 3.2.1-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| libarchive | libarchive | {"endIncluding":"3.2.0"} | |
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1844.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1850.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3657
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/23/6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/24/4
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91808
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036173
- https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/48-Out-of-bounds-read-and-signed-integer-overflow-in-libarchive.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1350280
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/3ad08e01b4d253c66ae56414886089684155af22
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/717
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-03
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5844.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5844
CWEs
CWE-190
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.