PublicDateAtUSN: 2015-12-31
Candidate: CVE-2015-8921
PublicDate: 2016-09-20 14:15:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8921
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3033-1
Description:
 The ae_strtofflags function in archive_entry.c in libarchive before 3.2.0
 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read)
 via a crafted mtree file.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
 https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/512
Priority: medium
Discovered-by: Hanno Boeck
Assigned-to: mdeslaur
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [7.5 HIGH]

Patches_libarchive:
 upstream: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/1cbc76faffb79a99c6009a1816736f73b4a3632a
 upstream: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/05a875fdb876e7a2f56a2937f756927cbed919e0
 upstream: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/90632371f89d1390bf71dd31ae1c842b9110bea2
 upstream: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/c600d11f2c1645f6f6965592659d386436f4d6db
upstream_libarchive: released (3.2.0-2)
precise_libarchive: released (3.0.3-6ubuntu1.3)
trusty_libarchive: released (3.1.2-7ubuntu2.3)
trusty/esm_libarchive: released (3.1.2-7ubuntu2.3)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_libarchive: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_libarchive: DNE
wily_libarchive: released (3.1.2-11ubuntu0.15.10.2)
xenial_libarchive: released (3.1.2-11ubuntu0.16.04.2)
esm-infra/xenial_libarchive: released (3.1.2-11ubuntu0.16.04.2)
devel_libarchive: not-affected (3.2.1-1)