CVE-2016-5418
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2016-09-12 | |
| Impact: | Important | What is this? |
Description
The sandboxing code in libarchive 3.2.0 and earlier mishandleshardlink archive entries of non-zero data size, which might allow remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted archive file.
See more information about CVE-2016-5418 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: | 4.6 |
| Vector String: | AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Version: | 2.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Network |
| Attack Complexity: | High |
| Authentication: | Single |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Partial |
| Integrity Impact: | Partial |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 6 (libarchive) | ELSA-2016-1850 | 2016-09-12 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (libarchive) | ELSA-2016-1844 | 2016-09-12 |
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