{"id":"USN-3736-1","summary":"libarchive vulnerabilities","details":"It was discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled certain archive files.\nA remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.\nThis issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.\n(CVE-2016-10209, CVE-2016-10349, CVE-2016-10350)\n\nAgostino Sarubbo discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled certain XAR files.\nA remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.\nThis issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.\n(CVE-2017-14166)\n\nIt was discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled certain files.\nA remote attacker could possibly use this issue to get access to sensitive\ninformation. (CVE-2017-14501, 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