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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3677-1                   security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/                     Salvatore Bonaccorso
September 25, 2016                    https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : libarchive
CVE ID         : CVE-2016-5418 CVE-2016-6250 CVE-2016-7166
Debian Bug     : 837714

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libarchive, a multi-format
archive and compression library, which may lead to denial of service
(memory consumption and application crash), bypass of sandboxing
restrictions and overwrite arbitrary files with arbitrary data from an
archive, or the execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 3.1.2-11+deb8u3.

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/

Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Debian: DSA-3677-1: libarchive security update

September 25, 2016
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libarchive, a multi-format archive and compression library, which may lead to denial of service (memory consumption and application crash...

Summary

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 3.1.2-11+deb8u3.

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/

Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Severity
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libarchive, a multi-format
archive and compression library, which may lead to denial of service
(memory consumption and application crash), bypass of sandboxing
restrictions and overwrite arbitrary files with arbitrary data from an
archive, or the execution of arbitrary code.

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