CVE-2016-1925 describes an integer underflow vulnerability in the lha_for_unix project's lha utility, specifically within the header.c file. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a buffer overflow and achieve unspecified impact by providing a large header size value in lha archives. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity, potentially leading to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, with 10 mentions, indicating awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:lha_for_unix_project:lha_for_unix:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.