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CVE-2016-4300 (GCVE-0-2016-4300)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-09-21 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:25
VLAI
Summary
Integer overflow in the read_SubStreamsInfo function in archive_read_support_format_7zip.c in libarchive before 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a 7zip file with a large number of substreams, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
CWE
  • n/a
Date Public
2016-06-19 00:00
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      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2016-4300",
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