Fedora 22: libarchive Security Update
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
Change Log
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 .