CVE-2016-5418

Description

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.

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1844.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1850.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1852

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1853

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1362601

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/e48209b03f1dd9625a992717e7b89c4f

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/dfd6b54ce33960e420fb206d8872fb759b577ad9

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/746

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-03

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/09/2

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3