CVE-2016-1925

critical

Published 2017-01-23 · Modified 2026-05-13

CVSS v3

9.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2

7.5

VIR risk

9.8

Description

Integer underflow in header.c in lha allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a large header size value for the (1) level0 or (2) level1 header in a lha archive, which triggers a buffer overflow.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1925.html

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
lha_for_unix_project	lha_for_unix	`-`

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1925.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/18/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/18/8
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-42

CWEs

CWE-191

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.