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Candidate: CVE-2015-8918
PublicDate: 2016-09-20
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8918
Description:
 The archive_string_append function in archive_string.c in libarchive before
 3.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a
 crafted cab files, related to "overlapping memcpy."
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 mdeslaur> never affected a released version, introduced and fixed between
 mdeslaur> 3.1.2 and 3.2.0. Introduced by:
 mdeslaur> https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/cf8e67ffc8a2227b63fc6d3d1569b0214f160f54
Bugs:
 https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/506
Priority: low
Discovered-by: Hanno Böck
Assigned-to:

Patches_libarchive:
 upstream: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/b6ba560
upstream_libarchive: released (3.2.0-2)
precise_libarchive: not-affected
trusty_libarchive: not-affected
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_libarchive: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_libarchive: DNE
wily_libarchive: not-affected
xenial_libarchive: not-affected
devel_libarchive: not-affected