CVE-2016-4302

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

4.75% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 91.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2016-09-21 14:00Z10 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 00:25Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-04-27

Assigning CNA

certcc

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
• CWE-122Heap-based Buffer OverflowVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

79381eac88ac9b0d0da4b2c50d7fd2447f66c2101ae2b0b4f455c01fb9d1dda9

• rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:1844http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1844.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
• www.oracle.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRM
• blog.talosintel.comhttp://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/the-poisoned-archives.htmlx_refsource_MISC
• www.talosintel.comhttp://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0154/x_refsource_MISC
• github.comhttps://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/719x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.oracle.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.securityfocus.com91331http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91331vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• bugzilla.redhat.comhttp://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1348444x_refsource_CONFIRM
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201701-03https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-03vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• www.debian.orgDSA-3657http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3657vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
• github.comhttps://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/05caadc7eedbef471ac9610809ba683f0c698700x_refsource_CONFIRM