Fedora 26: Libarchive Security Update for Critical Issues

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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