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CVE-2015-8917

Public on 2016-09-20
Modified on 2016-09-27
Description

A vulnerability was found in libarchive. A specially crafted CAB file could cause the application dereference a NULL pointer, leading to a crash.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
3.7
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 libarchive 2016-09-27 10:30 ALAS-2016-743

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 3.7 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H