| Name | CVE-2016-7166 |
| Description | libarchive before 3.2.0 does not limit the number of recursive decompressions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a crafted gzip file. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-617-1, DSA-3677-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| libarchive (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 3.1.2-11+deb8u12 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 3.2.2-2+deb9u3 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 3.2.2-2+deb9u5 | fixed |
| buster, buster (lts) | 3.3.3-4+deb10u4 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 3.3.3-4+deb10u3 | fixed |
| bullseye | 3.4.3-2+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 3.4.3-2+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 3.6.2-1+deb12u1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 3.6.2-1+deb12u2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 3.7.4-1.1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/660
(with reproducer) https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207362
Fixed by: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/6e06b1c89dd0d16f74894eac4cfc1327a06ee4a0
Fix improved by: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/37649d274867edd2dd25d8a3057c3b6cd81ce83e