CVE-2016-4300

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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

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

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

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": [
        {
            "signature_version": "v1",
            "deprecated": false,
            "target": {
                "file": "libarchive/archive_read_support_format_7zip.c",
                "function": "read_SubStreamsInfo"
            },
            "source": "https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/e79ef306afe332faf22e9b442a2c6b59cb175573",
            "digest": {
                "length": 2649.0,
                "function_hash": "46239902704382672067472777073698420896"
            },
            "signature_type": "Function",
            "id": "CVE-2016-4300-15650bc9"
        },
        {
            "signature_version": "v1",
            "deprecated": false,
            "target": {
                "file": "libarchive/archive_read_support_format_7zip.c"
            },
            "source": "https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/e79ef306afe332faf22e9b442a2c6b59cb175573",
            "digest": {
                "line_hashes": [
                    "114121825398685049637523548521724163081",
                    "158255184811572789911284109468266521732",
                    "335493315037050148892950470981890599307",
                    "209098857150887945768214746267601235406"
                ],
                "threshold": 0.9
            },
            "signature_type": "Line",
            "id": "CVE-2016-4300-dee1363a"
        }
    ]
}