CVE-2016-8688: Libarchive

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The mtree bidder in libarchive 3.2.1 does not keep track of line sizes when extending the read-ahead, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file, which triggers an invalid read in the (1) detect_form or (2) bid_entry function in libarchive/archive_read_support_format_mtree.c.

Affected products

• Libarchive Libarchive: version 3.2.1 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 42.2 only

Published 2017-02-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.