| Name | CVE-2015-8930 |
| Description | bsdtar in libarchive before 3.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an ISO with a directory that is a member of itself. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-554-1, DSA-3657-1 |
| NVD severity | medium |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| libarchive (PTS) | jessie | 3.1.2-11+deb8u3 | fixed |
| jessie (security) | 3.1.2-11+deb8u8 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch | 3.2.2-2+deb9u2 | fixed |
| buster, buster (security) | 3.3.3-4+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye, sid | 3.4.0-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/522
Fixed by: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/39fc59391b7cf2a007bffce280c1e3e66674258f (v3.1.900a)
Fixed by: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/01cfbca4fdae1492a8a09c001b61bbca46f869f2 (v3.1.900a)