{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2016-05-12T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "libarchive: Memory allocate error with symbolic links in cpio archives",
    "id" : "1347084",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1347084"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "3.5",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "3.7",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-770",
  "details" : [ "The archive_read_format_cpio_read_header function in archive_read_support_format_cpio.c in libarchive before 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a CPIO archive with a large symlink.", "A vulnerability was found in libarchive. A specially crafted cpio archive containing a symbolic link to a ridiculously large target path can cause memory allocation to fail, resulting in any attempt to view or extract the archive crashing." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2016-09-12T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2016:1850",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "libarchive-0:2.8.3-7.el6_8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2016-09-12T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2016:1844",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "libarchive-0:3.1.2-10.el7_2"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4809\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4809" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2016-4809",
  "csaw" : false
}