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Fedora 39: SECURITY Advisory - libarchive 2024-b15a51292f Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey June 12, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Fedora Security Announcement regarding libarchive outlines a severe buffer overflow vulnerability, providing essential updates and guidance on resolution.
Fix for CVE-2024-26256

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-2024-26256

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora buffer overflow update information libarchive heap issue

Change Log

* Mon May 27 2024 Lukas Javorsky - 3.7.1-2 - Fix for CVE-2024-26256

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2282529 - CVE-2024-26256 libarchive: Heap based buffer overflow in rar e8 filter [fedora-39] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2282529

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-b15a51292f' 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: 2.fc39
URL: https://www.libarchive.org/
Summary: A library for handling streaming archive formats

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security advisory fedora buffer overflow update information libarchive heap issue

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