suse · CVE-2016-7166

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 13:45:31 UTC Updated: 2024-10-23 01:24:13 UTC

View at Official suse advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail

Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-7166 severity moderate: SUSE including 8 source package names (bsdcpio-3.1.2-10.el7_2, bsdtar, …), 44 product×package rows across 22 product lines (SUSE Liberty Linux 7, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1, … (22 product lines)): Known Not Affected 40, Fixed 4.

Description:

libarchive before 3.2.0 does not limit the number of recursive decompressions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a crafted gzip file.

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