CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-5418

Published: Sep 21, 2016 | Modified: Dec 27, 2019
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
4.6 IMPORTANT
AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V3
7.5 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

The sandboxing code in libarchive 3.2.0 and earlier mishandles hardlink archive entries of non-zero data size, which might allow remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted archive file.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Enterprise_linux_desktop Redhat 6.0 (including) 6.0 (including)
Enterprise_linux_hpc_node Redhat 6.0 (including) 6.0 (including)
Enterprise_linux_server Redhat 6.0 (including) 6.0 (including)
Enterprise_linux_workstation Redhat 6.0 (including) 6.0 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat libarchive-0:2.8.3-7.el6_8 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat libarchive-0:3.1.2-10.el7_2 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.2 RedHat atomic-openshift-0:3.2.1.15-1.git.0.d84be7f.el7 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.2 RedHat heapster-0:1.1.0-1.beta2.el7.1 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.2 RedHat openshift-ansible-0:3.2.28-1.git.0.5a85fc5.el7 *
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1 RedHat atomic-openshift-0:3.1.1.7-1.git.0.65f396b.el7aos *
Libarchive Ubuntu precise *
Libarchive Ubuntu trusty *
Libarchive Ubuntu upstream *
Libarchive Ubuntu xenial *
Libarchive Ubuntu yakkety *

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