Bug 548110 (CVE-2015-8915)

Summary:	<app-arch/libarchive-3.2.1-r1: crash via malformed cpio archive (CVE-2015-8915)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	bsd+disabled, phmagic, ssuominen
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1216891
Whiteboard:	B3 [glsa cve]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	586182
Bug Blocks:

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2015-04-29 07:31:06 UTC

From ${URL} :

An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the way libarchive processed certain CPIO archives. An 
attacker could create a specially crafted CPIO archive that, when processed by an application using 
the libarchive library, would cause that application to crash.

Additional details:

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/102
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/502

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/e6c9668f3202215ddb71617b41c19b6f05acf008


@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.

Comment 1 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-06-27 13:15:41 UTC

This is fixed in 3.2.1 as well.

Comment 2 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-07-06 03:17:43 UTC

Added to existing GLSA.

Comment 3 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-01-01 14:10:23 UTC

CVE assignment: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/566

Upstream bug https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/503 mentioned in the CVE assignment was identified as duplicate of /issues/502 from our comment #0.

Comment 4 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2017-01-01 14:34:13 UTC

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201701-03 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-03
by GLSA coordinator Thomas Deutschmann (whissi).