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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.
CVE-2016-7166 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libarchive), 5 status rows across 5 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety): released 4, not-affected 1.
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.