Unbounded Recursive Decompression Vulnerability in libarchive

CVE-2016-7166 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

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