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CVE-2016-7166

Description

libarchive before 3.2.0 does not limit the number of recursive decompressions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a crafted gzip file.

POC

Reference

- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html

- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/6e06b1c89dd0d16f74894eac4cfc1327a06ee4a0

- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/660

Github

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