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CVE-2015-8922

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-8922 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in libarchive versions prior to 3.2.0, specifically affecting the read_CodersInfo function. It allows remote attackers to crash the application via a crafted 7z file, impacting products from Canonical, Novell, and Oracle that utilize libarchive. Rated Medium (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) to trigger a NULL pointer dereference, leading to high availability impact (A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.1.901aCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libarchive:libarchive:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:novell:suse_linux_enterprise_software_development_kit:12.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:novell:suse_linux_enterprise_desktop:12.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:novell:suse_linux_enterprise_server:12.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.06%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0206 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 5,760 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libarchive-0:3.1.2-10.el7_2
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-8922Low

libarchive: NULL pointer access in 7z parser

Jun 17, 2016

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00025.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-1844.html
blog.fuzzing-project.org / 47-Many-invalid-memory-access-issues-in-libarchive.html
Third Party Advisory
github.com / libarchive/libarchive/issues/513
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201701-03
suse.com / security/cve/CVE-2015-8922.html
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3657
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/06/17/2
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/06/17/5
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/91312
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-3033-1
Third Party Advisory