CVE-2016-7166
—CVSS 3.0
5.5 medium
EPSS
2%p75
Published
()
Modified
Description
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.
- Vendors
- redhatlibarchiveoracle
- Products
- enterprise linux desktop, enterprise linux hpc node, enterprise linux hpc node eus, enterprise linux server, enterprise linux server aus, enterprise linux server eus, enterprise linux workstation, libarchive, linux
- Weakness
- CWE-399
- Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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