Medium
Security advisory
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.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-5844
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:10 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2016-5844
Complete source record
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