Gentoo: GLSA-200708-03 Moderate: libarchive Multiple Pax Extension Risks

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200708-03 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: libarchive (formerly named as bsdtar): Multiple pax Extension Header Vulnerabilities Date: August 08, 2007 Bugs: #184984 ID: 200708-03

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities were found in libarchive (formerly named as app-archive/bsdtar), possibly allowing for the execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service.
Background ========= libarchive is a library for manipulating different streaming archive formats, including certain tar variants, several cpio formats, and both BSD and GNU ar variants.
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