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
- 2025-09-19T08:20:47.034057Z
- 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
-
- http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/the-poisoned-archives.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1844.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3657
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91326
- http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0152/
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/e79ef306afe332faf22e9b442a2c6b59cb175573
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/718
- https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00062&languageid=en-fr
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-03
- 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
Affected packages
Alpine:v3.4 / libarchive
Package
- Name
- libarchive
- Purl
- pkg:apk/alpine/libarchive?arch=source
Git / github.com/libarchive/libarchive
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixed
Affected versions
v2.*
v2.6.0
v2.6.1
v2.6.2
v2.7.0
v2.7.1
v2.8.0
v2.8.1
v2.8.2
v2.8.3
v2.8.4
v2.8.5
v3.*
v3.0.0a
v3.0.1b
v3.0.2
v3.0.3
v3.0.4
v3.1.0
v3.1.1
v3.1.2
v3.1.900a
v3.1.901a
v3.2.0
Database specific
{
"vanir_signatures": [
{
"source": "https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/e79ef306afe332faf22e9b442a2c6b59cb175573",
"signature_version": "v1",
"signature_type": "Function",
"deprecated": false,
"target": {
"file": "libarchive/archive_read_support_format_7zip.c",
"function": "read_SubStreamsInfo"
},
"digest": {
"function_hash": "46239902704382672067472777073698420896",
"length": 2649.0
},
"id": "CVE-2016-4300-15650bc9"
},
{
"source": "https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/e79ef306afe332faf22e9b442a2c6b59cb175573",
"signature_version": "v1",
"signature_type": "Line",
"deprecated": false,
"target": {
"file": "libarchive/archive_read_support_format_7zip.c"
},
"digest": {
"line_hashes": [
"114121825398685049637523548521724163081",
"158255184811572789911284109468266521732",
"335493315037050148892950470981890599307",
"209098857150887945768214746267601235406"
],
"threshold": 0.9
},
"id": "CVE-2016-4300-dee1363a"
}
]
}