CVE-2016-4809

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4809
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4809.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4809
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-09-21T14:25:05.610Z
Modified
2026-03-15T22:08:20.429465Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The archivereadformatcpioreadheader function in archivereadsupportformat_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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libarchive/libarchive

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
167e97be1d35c1e0947d768adbf94712244aad6b
Fixed
fd7e0c02
Database specific 
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        },
        {
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        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v2.*
v2.6.0
v2.6.1
v2.6.2
v2.7.0
v2.7.1
v2.8.0
v2.8.1
v2.8.2
v2.8.3
v2.8.4
v2.8.5
v3.*
v3.0.0a
v3.0.1b
v3.0.2
v3.0.3
v3.0.4
v3.1.0
v3.1.1
v3.1.2
v3.1.900a
v3.1.901a
v3.2.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4809.json"
unresolved_ranges 
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