Security Vulnerabilities fixed in libarchive USN-3033-1

Description

libarchive could be made to crash or run programs if it opened a speciallycrafted file.

Affected Applications

libarchive - Library to read/write archive files

CVE References

CVE-2015-8916 CVE-2015-8917 CVE-2015-8919 CVE-2015-8920 CVE-2015-8921 CVE-2015-8922 CVE-2015-8923 CVE-2015-8924 CVE-2015-8925 CVE-2015-8926 CVE-2015-8928 CVE-2015-8930 CVE-2015-8931 CVE-2015-8932 CVE-2015-8933 CVE-2015-8934 CVE-2016-5844 CVE-2016-4300 CVE-2016-4302 CVE-2016-4809 CVE-2015-8916 CVE-2015-8917 CVE-2015-8919 CVE-2015-8920 CVE-2015-8921 CVE-2015-8922 CVE-2015-8923 CVE-2015-8924 CVE-2015-8925 CVE-2015-8926 CVE-2015-8928 CVE-2015-8930 CVE-2015-8931 CVE-2015-8932 CVE-2015-8933 CVE-2015-8934 CVE-2016-4300 CVE-2016-4302 CVE-2016-4809 CVE-2016-5844

Other References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/3033-1