CVE-2016-4301

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-09-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

libarchive: through 3.2.0

References

http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/the-poisoned-archives.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91328
http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0153/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1348441
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/a550daeecf6bc689ade371349892ea17b5b97c77
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/715
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-03
http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/the-poisoned-archives.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91328
http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0153/

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