CVE-2016-4300
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/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
- 2016-09-21T14:25:01Z
- Modified
- 2025-07-01T03:07:37.669777Z
- 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.
- References
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- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1844.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3657
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91326
- https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00062&languageid=en-fr
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-03
- http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/the-poisoned-archives.html
- http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0152/
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/e79ef306afe332faf22e9b442a2c6b59cb175573
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/718
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1348439
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
- https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-4300
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4300
Affected packages
Alpine:v3.4 / libarchive
Package
- Name
- libarchive
- Purl
- pkg:apk/alpine/libarchive?arch=source
Debian:11 / libarchive
Package
- Name
- libarchive
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/libarchive?arch=source
Debian:12 / libarchive
Package
- Name
- libarchive
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/libarchive?arch=source
Debian:13 / libarchive
Package
- Name
- libarchive
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/libarchive?arch=source