ALPINE-CVE-2016-4809

Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-4809
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2016-4809.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2016-4809
Upstream
Published
2016-09-21T14:25:05Z
Modified
2025-09-25T23:51:15.778080Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The archivereadformatcpioreadheader function in archivereadsupportformat_cpio.c in libarchive before 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a CPIO archive with a large symlink.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.4 / libarchive

Package

Name
libarchive
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libarchive?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.2.1-r0

Affected versions

2.*

2.8.4-r0
2.8.4-r1
2.8.4-r2
2.8.5-r0

3.*

3.0.2-r0
3.0.3-r0
3.0.4-r0
3.1.2-r0
3.1.2-r1
3.1.2-r2
3.2.0-r0