CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-6250

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

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.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to remotely crash the application or execute malicious code, posing a serious security threat to the system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update libarchive to version 3.2.1 or later to mitigate this vulnerability.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS