CVE-2015-8924

Public on 2016-09-20
Modified on 2016-09-27
Description
A vulnerability was found in libarchive. A specially crafted TAR file could trigger an out-of-bounds read, potentially causing the application to disclose a small amount of application memory.
Severity
Low severity
Low
CVSS v3 Base Score
3.5
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 libarchive 2016-09-27 ALAS-2016-743 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 3.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P