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LIN8-4883 : Security Advisory - libarchive - CVE-2016-4809

Created: Oct 16, 2016 Updated: Dec 3, 2018

Resolved Date: Oct 20, 2016

Found In Version: 8.0

Fix Version: 8.0.0.11

Severity: Standard

Applicable for: Wind River Linux 8

Component/s: Userspace

Description

The archive_read_format_cpio_read_header function in archive_read_support_format_cpio.c in libarchive before 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a CPIO archive with a large symlink.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-4809

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CVE-2016-4809