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Fedora 22 FEDORA-2015-7197 Moderate Libarchive Crash Issue

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Calendar Grey May 3, 2015
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An essential security patch for libarchive in Fedora 22 resolves issue 1216891, which impacts the functionality for managing archives.
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

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate software update Fedora crash issue libarchive archive handling

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 .

Name: libarchive
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 3.1.2
Release: 12.fc22
URL: http://www.libarchive.org/
Summary: A library for handling streaming archive formats

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate software update Fedora crash issue libarchive archive handling

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