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CVE-2015-8917
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-09-20T14:15:03.337 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:35:28.423

Summary

bsdtar in libarchive before 3.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via an invalid character in the name of a cab file.

Affected products

debian — debian_linux

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References

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