Denial of Service Vulnerability in libarchive's archive_read_format_cpio_read_header Function

Denial of Service Vulnerability in libarchive's archive_read_format_cpio_read_header Function

CVE-2016-4809 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The archive_read_format_cpio_read_header function in archive_read_support_format_cpio.c in libarchive before 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a CPIO archive with a large symlink.

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