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(bsc#985697).\n- CVE-2015-8920: Stack out of bounds read in ar parser (bsc#985675).\n- CVE-2015-8921: Global out of bounds read in mtree parser (bsc#985682).\n- CVE-2015-8922: Null pointer access in 7z parser (bsc#985685).\n- CVE-2015-8923: Unclear crashes in ZIP parser (bsc#985703).\n- CVE-2015-8924: Heap buffer read overflow in tar (bsc#985609).\n- CVE-2015-8925: Unclear invalid memory read in mtree parser (bsc#985706).\n- CVE-2015-8926: NULL pointer access in RAR parser (bsc#985704).\n- CVE-2015-8928: Heap out of bounds read in mtree parser (bsc#985679).\n- CVE-2015-8929: Memory leak in tar parser (bsc#985669).\n- CVE-2015-8930: Endless loop in ISO parser (bsc#985700).\n- CVE-2015-8931: Undefined behavior / signed integer overflow in mtree parser (bsc#985689).\n- CVE-2015-8932: Compress handler left shifting larger than int size (bsc#985665).\n- CVE-2015-8933: Undefined behavior / signed integer overflow in TAR parser (bsc#985688).\n- CVE-2015-8934: Out of bounds read in RAR (bsc#985673).\n- CVE-2016-4300: Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the 7zip read_SubStreamsInfo (bsc#985832).\n- CVE-2016-4301: Stack buffer overflow in the mtree parse_device (bsc#985826).\n- CVE-2016-4302: Heap buffer overflow in the Rar decompression functionality (bsc#985835).\n- CVE-2016-4809: Memory allocate error with symbolic links in cpio archives (bsc#984990).\n","status":"published","published":"2016-07-29T08:20:09Z","modified":"2026-02-04T02:35:00.278817Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:53:43.438985Z"},{"id":"USN-3033-1","title":"libarchive vulnerabilities","description":"Hanno Böck discovered that libarchive contained multiple security issues\nwhen processing certain malformed archive files. 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