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Debian: DSA-3657-1 Critical: Libarchive DoS and Code Exec Details

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Calendar Grey August 30, 2016
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Patch issued for libarchive to address various weaknesses including potential denial of service and unauthorized code execution risks.
Hanno Boeck and Marcin Noga discovered multiple vulnerabilities in libarchive; processing malformed archives may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code
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Summary

Hanno Boeck and Marcin Noga discovered multiple vulnerabilities in
libarchive; processing malformed archives may result in denial of
service or the execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 3.1.2-11+deb8u2.

For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed
in version 3.2.1-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 3.2.1-1.

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: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: libarchive
CVE ID: CVE-2015-8916 CVE-2015-8917 CVE-2015-8919 CVE-2015-8920

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