{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 9 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-7166 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2016-7166 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Libarchive Libarchive, published on 21 Sep 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2016-7166 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2016-7166 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Libarchive Libarchive, published on 21 Sep 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-7166 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Libarchive Libarchive. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-7166/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-7166/index.md)","id":"CVE-2016-7166","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-7166/index.md","name":"CVE-2016-7166","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7166","GHSA-8hwj-j49v-pfwp","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7166"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"libarchive library","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Remote attackers can cause denial of service via memory exhaustion using crafted gzip files in libarchive.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"libarchive","vendor":"libarchive"},{"product":"linux","vendor":"oracle"},{"product":"enterprise_linux_desktop","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"enterprise_linux_hpc_node","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"enterprise_linux_hpc_node_eus","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"enterprise_linux_server","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"enterprise_linux_server_aus","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"enterprise_linux_server_eus","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"enterprise_linux_workstation","vendor":"redhat"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-399","name":null}],"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.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-7166","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"libarchive:libarchive","products":["libarchive:libarchive","oracle:linux","redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop","redhat:enterprise_linux_hpc_node","redhat:enterprise_linux_hpc_node_eus","redhat:enterprise_linux_server","redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus","redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus","redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2016"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":11,"next":{"headline":"Integer overflow in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-7167"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-7165"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2016-09-21","related":[{"cvss_score":9.1,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2024-37407","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-06-08"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-1541","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2016-05-07"},{"cvss_score":8.6,"headline":"Integer overflow in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-6250","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2016-09-21"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Libarchive: double free at archive_read_format_rar_seek_data() in archive_read_support_format_rar.c","id":"CVE-2025-5914","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-06-09"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2024-48957","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-10-10"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2024-48958","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-10-10"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Integer overflow in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-4300","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2016-09-21"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-06","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Remote attackers can cause denial of service via memory exhaustion using crafted gzip files in libarchive.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-7166/"}