A flaw was found in the way libarchive handled hardlink archive entries of non-zero size. Combined with flaws in libarchive's file system sandboxing, this issue could cause an application using libarchive to overwrite arbitrary files with arbitrary data from the archive.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | libarchive | 2016-09-27 10:30 | ALAS-2016-743 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 4.6 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P |
Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |