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CVE-2016-4300

Published: Sep 21, 2016

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Integer overflow in the read_SubStreamsInfo function in archive_read_support_format_7zip.c in libarchive before 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a 7zip file with a large number of substreams, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html

x_refsource_CONFIRM

http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/the-poisoned-archives.html

x_refsource_MISC

vdb-entry

x_refsource_BID

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/718

x_refsource_CONFIRM

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html

x_refsource_CONFIRM

http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0152/

x_refsource_MISC

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_GENTOO

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/e79ef306afe332faf22e9b442a2c6b59cb175573

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00062&languageid=en-fr

x_refsource_CONFIRM

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_DEBIAN

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1348439

x_refsource_CONFIRM

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