Security advisory

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-8687",
  "method": "structured",
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    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-8687",
    "summary": "Stack-based buffer overflow in the safe_fprintf function in tar/util.c in libarchive 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted non-printable multibyte character in a filename.",
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                        "introduced": "3.2.1"
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                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
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          "versions": [
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            "v3.2.1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
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                "source": "https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/e37b620fe8f14535d737e89a4dcabaed4517bf1a",
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                "source": "https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/e37b620fe8f14535d737e89a4dcabaed4517bf1a",
                "target": {
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            "vanir_signatures_modified": "2026-10-20T13:22:47Z"
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T13:22:47.756225851Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00037.html",
        "https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/09/11/libarchive-bsdtar-stack-based-buffer-overflow-in-bsdtar_expand_char-util-c/",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1377926",
        "https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/e37b620fe8f14535d737e89a4dcabaed4517bf1a",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-03"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
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            "vendor_product": "opensuse:leap",
            "extracted_events": [
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                "range": [
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                    "introduced": "42.2"
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                    "last_affected": "42.2"
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        "value": "CVE-2016-8687",
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    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 387595,
  "published_at": "2017-02-15T19:59:00.58+00:00"
}