CVE-2016-9888

EPSS 0.35%
Published 08.12.2016 08:59:02
Last modified 12.04.2025 10:46:40
Source cve@mitre.org
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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.

Affected products Warnungen 0 Metrics 3 CWE 1 References 8

Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)

Gnome ≫ Libgsf Version <= 1.14.40

Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.

EPSS Metriken
Type	Source	Score	Percentile
EPSS	FIRST.org	0.35%	0.569

CVSS Metriken
Source	Base Score	Exploit Score	Impact Score	Vector string
nvd@nist.gov	5.5	1.8	3.6	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvd@nist.gov	4.3	8.6	2.9	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94860

https://github.com/GNOME/libgsf/commit/95a8351a75758cf10b3bf6abae0b6b461f90d9e5

Patch

Vendor Advisory

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00016.html

https://secunia.com/advisories/71201/

Third Party Advisory

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https://secunia.com/secunia_research/2016-17/

Third Party Advisory

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https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9888

CVE Source (NVD)

https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2016-9888

CVE Source (JSON)

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2016-9888

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