CVE-2015-8917

CVE Details

Release Date:	2016-06-17
Impact:	Low	What is this?

Description

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

See more information about CVE-2015-8917 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	3.5
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	Single
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 7 (libarchive)	ELSA-2016-1844	2016-09-12