CVE-2016-6250

Severity: high (CVSS 8.6 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-09-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Integer overflow in the ISO9660 writer in libarchive before 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code via vectors related to verifying filename lengths when writing an ISO9660 archive, which trigger a buffer overflow.

Affected products

libarchive: through 3.2.0
Oracle Corporation Oracle Linux: 7

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1844.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/20/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/21/3
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92036
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036431
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1347085
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/3014e198
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/files/295073/libarchiveOverflow.txt
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/711
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-03
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1844.html

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