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(CVE-2016-4300,\nCVE-2016-4302)\n\nIt was discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled memory allocation\nwith large cpio symlinks. A remote attacker could use this issue to\npossibly cause libarchive to crash, resulting in a denial of 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