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CVE-2015-8929

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2016-09-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

• libarchive: through 3.1.901a
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 12-sp1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 12-sp1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 12-sp1

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00025.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/17/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/17/5
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91340
• https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/47-Many-invalid-memory-access-issues-in-libarchive.html
• https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/517
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-03
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00025.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/17/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/17/5
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91340
• https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/47-Many-invalid-memory-access-issues-in-libarchive.html

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