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Debian: DSA-2413-1 Moderate: libarchive Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey February 20, 2012
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Two security vulnerabilities in libarchive could enable remote adversaries to run unauthorized commands. It is advised to perform an upgrade.
Two buffer overflows have been discovered in libarchive, a library providing a flexible interface for reading and writing archives in various formats

Summary

Two buffer overflows have been discovered in libarchive, a library
providing a flexible interface for reading and writing archives in
various formats. The possible buffer overflows while reading is9660
or tar streams allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary
code depending on the application that makes use of this functionality.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.8.4-1+squeeze1.

For the testing (wheezy) and unstable (sid) distributions,
this problem has been fixed in version 2.8.5-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your libarchive packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: libarchive
CVE ID: CVE-2011-1777 CVE-2011-1778

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