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A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to\noverwrite arbitrary files. (CVE-2016-5418)\n\nChristian Wressnegger, Alwin Maier, and Fabian Yamaguchi discovered that\nlibarchive incorrectly handled filename lengths when writing ISO9660\narchives. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause libarchive to\ncrash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary\ncode. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and\nUbuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-6250)\n\nAlexander Cherepanov discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled\nrecursive decompressions. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue\nto cause libarchive to hang, resulting in a denial of service. This issue\nonly applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.\n(CVE-2016-7166)\n\nIt was discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled non-printable\nmultibyte characters in filenames. 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