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CVE-2015-8915

libarchive: crash via malformed cpio archive

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

1.9

CVSS 2.0

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Published · April 28, 2015

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

bsdcpio in libarchive before 3.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid read and crash) via crafted cpio file.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 1.9
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read