CVE-2016-7166: Libarchive

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

libarchive before 3.2.0 does not limit the number of recursive decompressions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a crafted gzip file.

Affected products

• Libarchive Libarchive: up to and including 3.1.901a
• Oracle Linux: version 6 only; version 7 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only; version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: version 7.0 only; version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node Eus: version 7.2 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only; version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 7.2 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: version 7.2 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only; version 6.0 only

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