Denial of Service Vulnerability in libarchive's readline Function

Denial of Service Vulnerability in libarchive's readline Function

CVE-2015-8925 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The readline function in archive_read_support_format_mtree.c in libarchive before 3.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid read) via a crafted mtree file, related to newline parsing.

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