CVE-2016-6250: Libarchive

High severity, CVSS 8.6. EPSS: 6.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in the ISO9660 writer in libarchive before 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code via vectors related to verifying filename lengths when writing an ISO9660 archive, which trigger a buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Libarchive Libarchive: up to and including 3.2.0
• Oracle Linux: version 7 only

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