CVE-2016-4301: Libarchive

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the parse_device function in archive_read_support_format_mtree.c in libarchive before 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted mtree file.

Affected products

• Libarchive Libarchive: up to and including 3.2.0

Published 2016-09-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.