Denial of Service Vulnerability in libarchive 3.2.1 via Crafted Non-Printable Multibyte Character in Filename

CVE-2016-8687 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Stack-based buffer overflow in the safe_fprintf function in tar/util.c in libarchive 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted non-printable multibyte character in a filename.

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