Candidate: CVE-2016-4301
PublicDate: 2016-09-21 14:25:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4301
 http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/the-poisoned-archives.html
 http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0153/
 https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/715
Description:
 Stack-based buffer overflow in the parse_device function in
 archive_read_support_format_mtree.c in libarchive before 3.2.1 allows
 remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted mtree file.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 mdeslaur> introduced after 3.1.2
Bugs:
Priority: medium
Discovered-by: Marcin ‘Icewall’ Noga
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H [7.8 HIGH]

Patches_libarchive:
 upstream: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/a550daeecf6bc689ade371349892ea17b5b97c77
upstream_libarchive: needed
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)