CVE-2015-8930

Published: 31 December 2015

bsdtar in libarchive before 3.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an ISO with a directory that is a member of itself.

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 7.5

Status

Package	Release	Status
libarchive Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (3.2.0-2)




	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)	Released (3.1.2-11ubuntu0.16.04.2)
	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Released (3.1.2-7ubuntu2.3)
	Patches: Upstream: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/39fc59391b7cf2a007bffce280c1e3e66674258f Upstream: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/01cfbca4fdae1492a8a09c001b61bbca46f869f2

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8930
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3033-1
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Bugs

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/522

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