CVE-2016-8689

The readHeader function in archivereadsupportformat_7zip.c in libarchive 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via multiple EmptyStream attributes in a header in a 7zip archive.

Database specific

{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "opensuse:leap",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "42.2"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "42.2"
                }
            ],
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libarchive/libarchive

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive

Events

Introduced

139d0576b51a253732a5ab1f66805dffbf8b00af

Last affected

139d0576b51a253732a5ab1f66805dffbf8b00af

Fixed

7f17c791dcfd8c0416e2cd2485b19410e47ef126

Database specific

{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:libarchive:libarchive:3.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": [
        "CPE_STRING",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "3.2.1"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "3.2.1"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

3.*

3.2.1

v3.*

v3.2.1

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8689.json"

vanir_signatures_modified

"2026-07-08T12:54:12Z"

vanir_signatures

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