Fedora 25: 2016-12-10 Critical: Mingw-Libarchive Security Fix
fedora
December 11, 2016
Security fixes.
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 fixes.
Change Log
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1385674 - CVE-2016-8687 CVE-2016-8688 CVE-2016-8689 mingw-libarchive: various flaws [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1385674
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade mingw-libarchive' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html
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Name: mingw-libarchive
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 3.2.2
Release: 1.fc25
Summary: MinGW package for handling streaming archive formats
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