Mageia 8: 2022-0060 Critical Updating of Libarchive Security Issues
mageia
February 12, 2022
Processing fixup entries may follow symbolic links
Summary
Processing fixup entries may follow symbolic links. (CVE-2021-31566)
libarchive 3.4.1 through 3.5.1 has a use-after-free in copy_string (called
from do_uncompress_block and process_block). (CVE-2021-36976)
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30023
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/releases/tag/v3.5.3
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-31566
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-36976
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 8/core/libarchive-3.5.3-1.mga8
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Publication date: 12 Feb 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0060.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-31566,
CVE-2021-36976
Topics Covered
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