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CVE-2016-7166 (GCVE-0-2016-7166)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-09-21 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:50
VLAI
Summary
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.
CWE
  • n/a
Date Public
2016-02-19 00:00
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      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2016-7166",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2016-7166.json",
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