CVE-2016-9888

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9888
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9888.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-9888
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-12-08T08:59:02.430Z
Modified
2025-11-14T04:54:08.937982Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An error within the "tardirectoryfor_file()" function (gsf-infile-tar.c) in GNOME Structured File Library before 1.14.41 can be exploited to trigger a Null pointer dereference and subsequently cause a crash via a crafted TAR file.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/gnome/libgsf

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/gnome/libgsf
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
95a8351a75758cf10b3bf6abae0b6b461f90d9e5

Affected versions

Other

LIBGSF_1_10_0
LIBGSF_1_10_1
LIBGSF_1_11_0
LIBGSF_1_12_0
LIBGSF_1_12_1
LIBGSF_1_12_2
LIBGSF_1_12_3
LIBGSF_1_13_0
LIBGSF_1_13_1
LIBGSF_1_13_2
LIBGSF_1_13_3
LIBGSF_1_13_99
LIBGSF_1_14_0
LIBGSF_1_14_1
LIBGSF_1_14_10
LIBGSF_1_14_11
LIBGSF_1_14_12
LIBGSF_1_14_13
LIBGSF_1_14_14
LIBGSF_1_14_15
LIBGSF_1_14_16
LIBGSF_1_14_17
LIBGSF_1_14_18
LIBGSF_1_14_19
LIBGSF_1_14_2
LIBGSF_1_14_20
LIBGSF_1_14_21
LIBGSF_1_14_22
LIBGSF_1_14_23
LIBGSF_1_14_24
LIBGSF_1_14_25
LIBGSF_1_14_26
LIBGSF_1_14_27
LIBGSF_1_14_28
LIBGSF_1_14_29
LIBGSF_1_14_3
LIBGSF_1_14_30
LIBGSF_1_14_31
LIBGSF_1_14_32
LIBGSF_1_14_33
LIBGSF_1_14_34
LIBGSF_1_14_35
LIBGSF_1_14_36
LIBGSF_1_14_37
LIBGSF_1_14_38
LIBGSF_1_14_39
LIBGSF_1_14_4
LIBGSF_1_14_40
LIBGSF_1_14_5
LIBGSF_1_14_6
LIBGSF_1_14_7
LIBGSF_1_14_8
LIBGSF_1_14_9
LIBGSF_1_1_0
LIBGSF_1_2_0
LIBGSF_1_3_0
LIBGSF_1_4_0
LIBGSF_1_5_0
LIBGSF_1_6_0
LIBGSF_1_7_2
LIBGSF_1_8_0
LIBGSF_1_8_1
LIBGSF_1_8_2
LIBGSF_1_9_0
LIBGSF_1_9_1

Database specific

vanir_signatures

[
    {
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "digest": {
            "length": 577.0,
            "function_hash": "30300424220287727107669688499048731258"
        },
        "id": "CVE-2016-9888-7ab71ee1",
        "source": "https://github.com/gnome/libgsf/commit/95a8351a75758cf10b3bf6abae0b6b461f90d9e5",
        "target": {
            "file": "gsf/gsf-infile-tar.c",
            "function": "tar_directory_for_file"
        }
    },
    {
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "digest": {
            "threshold": 0.9,
            "line_hashes": [
                "262103175350556071554840957830167275387",
                "182396120519103499655931525662374695697",
                "318403798528866774086469506195639606397",
                "267926614081809140441956199085229040430",
                "300561012929153051164727068371397909858",
                "85968937341075246351229598385055345921"
            ]
        },
        "id": "CVE-2016-9888-7ae24dd2",
        "source": "https://github.com/gnome/libgsf/commit/95a8351a75758cf10b3bf6abae0b6b461f90d9e5",
        "target": {
            "file": "gsf/gsf-infile-tar.c"
        }
    }
]

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9888.json"