
USN-3033-1: libarchive vulnerabilities
USN-3033-1: libarchive vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3033-1 14th July, 2016 libarchive vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 15.10 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary libarchive could be made to crash or run programs if it opened a specially crafted file. Software description libarchive – Library to read/write archive files Details Hanno Böck discovered that libarchive contained multiple security issueswhen processing certain malformed archive files. A remote attacker coulduse this issue to cause libarchive to crash, resulting in a denial ofservice, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2015-8916, CVE-2015-8917CVE-2015-8919, CVE-2015-8920, CVE-2015-8921, CVE-2015-8922, CVE-2015-8923,CVE-2015-8924, CVE-2015-8925, CVE-2015-8926, CVE-2015-8928, CVE-2015-8930,CVE-2015-8931, CVE-2015-8932, CVE-2015-8933, CVE-2015-8934, CVE-2016-5844) Marcin "Icewall" Noga discovered that libarchive contained multiplesecurity issues when processing certain malformed archive files. A remoteattacker could use this issue to cause libarchive to crash, resulting in adenial of [ more… ]