Security Advisory

CVE-2016-4300

7.8
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

Integer overflow in the read_SubStreamsInfo function in archive_read_support_format_7zip.c in libarchive before 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a 7zip file with a large number of substreams, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Published Date September 21, 2016
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory