ubuntu · CVE-2016-4302

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-06-23 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:03:05 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-4302 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libarchive), 5 status rows across 5 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial): released 4, needed 1.

Description:

Heap-based buffer overflow in the parse_codes function in archive_read_support_format_rar.c in libarchive before 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a RAR file with a zero-sized dictionary.

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