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CVE-2016-9888 json

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…

published 2016-12-08 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-10677

cvss
5.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 71%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • libgsf Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.14.41-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9888

  • libgsf SLES LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5-LTSS 1.14.40-8.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:3770-1

  • libgsf Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +20 more 1.14.41-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2016-9888

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-9888 updated cvss 3.3

libgsf: Null pointer dereference in tar_directory_for_file()

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 libgsf Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libgsf, libgsf-gnome, libgsf-python Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libgsf
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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Weakness

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Sources

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