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Fedora 21: FEDORA-2015-7217 Important: OpenSSL Vulnerability Addressed
fedora
May 22, 2015
Security fix for bug 1216891
Summary
Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read several different
streaming archive formats, including most popular tar variants, several cpio
formats, and both BSD and GNU ar variants. It can also write shar archives and
read ISO9660 CDROM images and ZIP archives.
Update Information:
Security fix for bug 1216891
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Wed Apr 29 2015 Pavel Raiskup
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1216891 - libarchive: crash via malformed cpio archive
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1216891
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update libarchive' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .
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Name: libarchive
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 3.1.2
Release: 11.fc21
Summary: A library for handling streaming archive formats
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