CVE-2015-8917: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

bsdtar in libarchive before 3.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via an invalid character in the name of a cab file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 15.10 only; version 16.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
• Libarchive Libarchive: up to and including 3.1.901a

Published 2016-09-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.