CVE-2016-5844

medium
Published 2016-09-21 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Integer overflow in the ISO parser in libarchive before 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted ISO file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5844

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5844.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1350280

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed3.2.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed3.2.1-1
debian debianforkyfixed3.2.1-1
debian debiansidfixed3.2.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed3.2.1-1
redhat rhel6.0affected
redhat rhel7.0affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
libarchivelibarchive{"endIncluding":"3.2.0"}

References

CWEs

CWE-190

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