Denial of Service Vulnerability in libarchive Affects Multiple Vendors
CVE-2015-8921
7.5HIGH
Key Information:
- Vendor
- Novell
- Status
- Vendor
- CVE Published:
- 20 September 2016
Summary
The ae_strtofflags function in the libarchive library prior to version 3.2.0 is susceptible to a denial of service condition. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability by crafting malicious mtree files, leading to out-of-bounds reads that may crash the application or service using the affected library. This could disrupt operations and compromise the integrity of systems relying on libarchive for data archiving and extraction.
References
CVSS V3.1
Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged
Timeline
Vulnerability published
Vulnerability Reserved