Denial of Service Vulnerability in libarchive's _ar_read_header Function

CVE-2015-8920 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The _ar_read_header function in archive_read_support_format_ar.c in libarchive before 3.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds stack read) via a crafted ar file.

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