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Fedora 39: FEDORA-2024-ab6348928b critical: libarchive out-of-bounds access

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Calendar Grey October 31, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 39 enhancement resolves memory safety issues in libarchive, bolstering defenses against vulnerabilities.
Fix for CVE-2024-48957

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:

Fix for CVE-2024-48957

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora out-of-bounds access libarchive threat fix 2024

Change Log

* Mon Oct 14 2024 Lukas Javorsky - 3.7.1-3 - Fix CVE-2024-48957 - Resolves: rhbz#2317762

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2317762 - CVE-2024-48957 libarchive: Out-of-bounds access in libarchive's archive file handling [fedora-39] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2317762

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-ab6348928b' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: libarchive
Product: Fedora 39
Version: 3.7.1
Release: 3.fc39
URL: https://www.libarchive.org/
Summary: A library for handling streaming archive formats

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora out-of-bounds access libarchive threat fix 2024

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