CVE-2016-1541

HIGH8.8EPSS 12.3%

libarchive - security update

Published: 5/7/2016Modified: 11/19/2025

Also known as:DSA-3574-1ALPINE-CVE-2016-1541DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1541

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the zip_read_mac_metadata function in archive_read_support_format_zip.c in libarchive before 3.2.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted entry-size values in a ZIP archive.

Affected packages (3)

Alpine/libarchivefrom 0, < 3.2.0-r0
Debian/libarchivefrom 0, < 3.1.2-11.1
Debian/libarchivefrom 0, < 3.1.2-11+deb8u1

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH8.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (2)

ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-1541
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1541