CVE-2015-8929

Publication date 20 September 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libarchive	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

introduced and fixed between 3.1.2 and 3.2.0

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
libarchive	Upstream: d24e79e

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.5 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8929