CVE-2016-4300

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4300
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4300.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4300
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-09-21T14:25:01.940Z
Modified
2026-08-03T14:23:37.200346Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Integer overflow in the readSubStreamsInfo function in archivereadsupportformat_7zip.c in libarchive before 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a 7zip file with a large number of substreams, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Database specific 
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        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "3.2.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_RANGE",
            "vendor_product": "libarchive:libarchive",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:libarchive:libarchive:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "7.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "7.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_hpc_node",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_hpc_node:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "7.2"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.2"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_hpc_node_eus",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_hpc_node_eus:7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "7.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_server",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "7.2"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.2"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "7.2"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.2"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus:7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "7.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "fixed": "3.2.1"
                }
            ],
            "source": "DESCRIPTION"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libarchive/libarchive

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
e79ef306afe332faf22e9b442a2c6b59cb175573
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "source": "REFERENCES"
}

Affected versions

v3.*
v3.0.0a
v3.0.1b
v3.1.900a
v3.2.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4300.json"
vanir_signatures_modified 
"2026-08-03T14:23:37Z"
vanir_signatures 
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            "length": 2649.0
        },
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        "target": {
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        },
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        "signature_version": "v1",
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        },
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