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Security Advisory

USN-2981-1 libarchive vulnerabilities

USN-2981-1 libarchive vulnerabilities

Severity

Medium

Vendor

Libarchive, Canonical Ubuntu

Versions Affected

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Description

It was discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled certain entry-size values in ZIP archives. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause libarchive to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-1541)

Affected Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

  • All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs2 prior to v.1.58.0

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:

  • The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with cflinuxfs2 v.1.58.0 or later versions

References

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Cloud Foundry Foundation Security Team, AUTHOR

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