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openSUSE Leap 42.1 Security Advisory 2016:2036-1 Important Libarchive Fixes

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Calendar Grey August 11, 2016
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Resolves 20 security flaws in libarchive for openSUSE, tackling significant vulnerabilities and safeguarding system stability.
An update that fixes 20 vulnerabilities is now available

Description

libarchive was updated to fix 20 security issues.

These security issues were fixed:

- CVE-2015-8918: Overlapping memcpy in CAB parser (bsc#985698).

- CVE-2015-8919: Heap out of bounds read in LHA/LZH parser (bsc#985697).

- CVE-2015-8920: Stack out of bounds read in ar parser (bsc#985675).

- CVE-2015-8921: Global out of bounds read in mtree parser (bsc#985682).

- CVE-2015-8922: Null pointer access in 7z parser (bsc#985685).

- CVE-2015-8923: Unclear crashes in ZIP parser (bsc#985703).

- CVE-2015-8924: Heap buffer read overflow in tar (bsc#985609).

- CVE-2015-8925: Unclear invalid memory read in mtree parser (bsc#985706).

- CVE-2015-8926: NULL pointer access in RAR parser (bsc#985704).

- CVE-2015-8928: Heap out of bounds read in mtree parser (bsc#985679).

- CVE-2015-8929: Memory leak in tar parser (bsc#985669).

- CVE-2015-8930: Endless loop in ISO parser (bsc#985700).

- CVE-2015-8931: Undefined behavior / signed integer overflow in mtree

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security advisory buffer overflow patch important memory leak libarchive openSUSE

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-969=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):

bsdtar-3.1.2-13.2

bsdtar-debuginfo-3.1.2-13.2

libarchive-debugsource-3.1.2-13.2

libarchive-devel-3.1.2-13.2

libarchive13-3.1.2-13.2

libarchive13-debuginfo-3.1.2-13.2

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64):

libarchive13-32bit-3.1.2-13.2

libarchive13-debuginfo-32bit-3.1.2-13.2

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8918.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8919.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8920.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8921.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8922.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8923.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8924.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8925.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8926.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8928.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8929.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8930.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8931.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8932.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8933.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8934.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4300.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4301.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4302.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:2036-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 .

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