CVE Database · CVE-2016-7166
CVSS v3.1
N/A
EPSS
1.64%
Published
Sep 21, 2016
Modified
May 6, 2026
Public PoC / Exploit (1)
All weaponized →Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.
Description
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.
Weaknesses (CWE)
Affected Products (14)
References (20)