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Fedora 42: libarchive Important CVE Fix Updates 2025-47e73aaaea

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Calendar Grey August 20, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The update of libarchive within Fedora 42 tackles a variety of bugs and addresses several CVE vulnerabilities, enhancing the overall security of the system.
Rebase due to a lot of CVE 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:

Rebase due to a lot of CVE fixes

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Change Log

* Fri Aug 15 2025 Lukas Javorsky - 3.8.1-1 - Rebase to version 3.8.1 - Resolves: rhbz#2388646 * Tue Mar 25 2025 Lukas Javorsky - 3.7.8-1 - Rebase to version 3.7.8

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2371071 - CVE-2025-5914 libarchive: Double free at archive_read_format_rar_seek_data() in archive_read_support_format_rar.c [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2371071 [ 2 ] Bug #2388646 - Libarchive 3.8.1 is available; Many security updates missing https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2388646

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-47e73aaaea' 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 42
Version: 3.8.1
Release: 1.fc42
URL: https://www.libarchive.org/
Summary: A library for handling streaming archive formats

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