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Debian 8: DLA-1971-1 Moderate: Libarchive Use-After-Free Threat

debian lts
Calendar Grey October 26, 2019
Dist Debian Esm H88
Enhance libarchive to address a use-after-free vulnerability in Debian 8 Jessie that results in archive integrity problems.
An issue has been found in libarchive, a multi-format archive and compression library
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security advisory update debian libarchive use-after-free archive issue

Summary

In case of a crafted archive containing several parts and one part being
corrupt, there would be an use-after-free for the next part of the
archive.


For Debian 8 "Jessie", this problem has been fixed in version
3.1.2-11+deb8u8.

We recommend that you upgrade your libarchive packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS



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Package: libarchive
Version: 3.1.2-11+deb8u8
CVE ID: CVE-2019-18408

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