{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-9888 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2016-9888 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 8 Dec 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-2016-9888 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2016-9888 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 8 Dec 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-2016-9888 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: n/a. 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-2016-9888/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-9888/index.md)","id":"CVE-2016-9888","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-9888/index.md","name":"CVE-2016-9888","record":{"aliases":["ALPINE-CVE-2016-9888","DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9888","DLA-2183-1","DLA-740-1","GHSA-7j73-f8pw-v3wq","MGASA-2016-0427","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9888"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"GNOME Structured File Library","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Attackers can cause a denial of service via a crafted TAR file exploiting a null pointer dereference in the GNOME Structured File Library.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"libgsf","vendor":"gnome"}],"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-476","name":"NULL Pointer Dereference"}],"description":"An error within the \"tar_directory_for_file()\" function (gsf-infile-tar.c) in GNOME Structured File Library before 1.14.41 can be exploited to trigger a Null pointer dereference and subsequently cause a crash via a crafted TAR 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":"Null dereference in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-9888","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2016"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"Cross-site scripting in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-9889"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER.","id":"CVE-2016-9886"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2016-12-08","related":[{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Integer overflow in G Structured File Library (libgsf)","id":"CVE-2024-36474","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-10-03"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Integer overflow in G Structured File Library (libgsf)","id":"CVE-2024-42415","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-10-03"}],"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":"Attackers can cause a denial of service via a crafted TAR file exploiting a null pointer dereference in the GNOME Structured File Library.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-9888/"}