PublicDateAtUSN: 2015-12-31
Candidate: CVE-2015-8930
PublicDate: 2016-09-20 14:15:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8930
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3033-1
Description:
 bsdtar in libarchive before 3.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial
 of service (infinite loop) via an ISO with a directory that is a member of
 itself.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
 https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/522
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/39fc59391b7cf2a007bffce280c1e3e66674258f
 upstream: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/01cfbca4fdae1492a8a09c001b61bbca46f869f2
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)