--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2017-35e59a5ffb
2017-04-21 14:26:09.124361
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Name        : libarchive
Product     : Fedora 26
Version     : 3.2.2
Release     : 4.fc26
URL         : http://www.libarchive.org/
Summary     : A library for handling streaming archive formats
Description :
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:

fix two minor CVEs by backporting upstream commits (rhbz#1439705, rhbz#1417920)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1439705 - CVE-2016-10209 libarchive: NULL pointer dereference in archive_wstring_append_from_mbs function [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1439705
  [ 2 ] Bug #1417920 - CVE-2017-5601 libarchive: Out of bounds read in lha_read_file_header_1() function [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1417920
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade 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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Fedora 26: libarchive Security Update

April 21, 2017
fix two minor CVEs by backporting upstream commits (rhbz#1439705, rhbz#1417920)

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.

fix two minor CVEs by backporting upstream commits (rhbz#1439705, rhbz#1417920)

[ 1 ] Bug #1439705 - CVE-2016-10209 libarchive: NULL pointer dereference in archive_wstring_append_from_mbs function [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1439705

[ 2 ] Bug #1417920 - CVE-2017-5601 libarchive: Out of bounds read in lha_read_file_header_1() function [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1417920

su -c 'dnf upgrade 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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FEDORA-2017-35e59a5ffb 2017-04-21 14:26:09.124361 Product : Fedora 26 Version : 3.2.2 Release : 4.fc26 URL : http://www.libarchive.org/ Summary : A library for handling streaming archive formats Description : 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. fix two minor CVEs by backporting upstream commits (rhbz#1439705, rhbz#1417920) [ 1 ] Bug #1439705 - CVE-2016-10209 libarchive: NULL pointer dereference in archive_wstring_append_from_mbs function [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1439705 [ 2 ] Bug #1417920 - CVE-2017-5601 libarchive: Out of bounds read in lha_read_file_header_1() function [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1417920 su -c 'dnf upgrade libarchive' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/security/ package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to package-announce-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Product : Fedora 26
Version : 3.2.2
Release : 4.fc26
URL : http://www.libarchive.org/
Summary : A library for handling streaming archive formats

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