Candidate: CVE-2015-8929
PublicDate: 2016-09-20 14:15:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8929
Description:
 Memory leak in the __archive_read_get_extract function in
 archive_read_extract2.c in libarchive before 3.2.0 allows remote attackers
 to cause a denial of service via a tar file.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 mdeslaur> introduced and fixed between 3.1.2 and 3.2.0
Bugs:
 https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/517
Priority: low
Discovered-by: Hanno Boeck
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [5.5 MEDIUM]

Patches_libarchive:
 upstream: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/d24e79e
upstream_libarchive: released (3.2.0-2)
precise_libarchive: not-affected
trusty_libarchive: not-affected
trusty/esm_libarchive: not-affected
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_libarchive: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_libarchive: DNE
wily_libarchive: not-affected
xenial_libarchive: not-affected (3.1.2-11ubuntu0.16.04.1)
esm-infra/xenial_libarchive: not-affected (3.1.2-11ubuntu0.16.04.1)
devel_libarchive: not-affected (3.2.1-1)