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CVE-2015-8917

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Sep 20, 2016 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
3.5 LOW
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V3
3.7 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
LOW
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8917
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

bsdtar in libarchive before 3.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via an invalid character in the name of a cab file.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Debian_linuxDebian7.0 (including)7.0 (including)
Debian_linuxDebian8.0 (including)8.0 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatlibarchive-0:3.1.2-10.el7_2*
LibarchiveUbuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
LibarchiveUbuntuesm-infra/xenial*
LibarchiveUbuntuprecise*
LibarchiveUbuntutrusty*
LibarchiveUbuntutrusty/esm*
LibarchiveUbuntuupstream*
LibarchiveUbuntuwily*
LibarchiveUbuntuxenial*

Potential Mitigations

References

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