CVE-2016-4301: Buffer Overflow

First published: Tue Jun 21 2016(Updated: )

An exploitable stack based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the mtree parse_device functionality of libarchive. A specially crafted mtree file can cause a buffer overflow resulting in memory corruption/code execution. An attacker can send a malformed file to trigger this vulnerability. External references: <a href="http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0153/">http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0153/</a> Upstream fix: <a href="https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/a550daeecf6bc689ade371349892ea17b5b97c77">https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/a550daeecf6bc689ade371349892ea17b5b97c77</a>

Credit: cret@cert.org

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