CVE-2016-4301

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/the-poisoned-archives.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91328
http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0153/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1348441Issue Tracking
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/a550daeecf6bc689ade371349892ea17b5b97c77Issue Tracking, Patch
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/715Issue Tracking, Patch
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-03
http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/the-poisoned-archives.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91328
http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0153/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1348441Issue Tracking
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/a550daeecf6bc689ade371349892ea17b5b97c77Issue Tracking, Patch
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/715Issue Tracking, Patch
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-03

Timeline

Published: Sep 21, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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