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openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2018:0497-1 Important P7zip Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey February 20, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The recent p7zip update addresses critical vulnerabilities present in openSUSE Leap 42.3, significantly enhancing system stability and security.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

Description

This update for p7zip fixes the following security issues:

- CVE-2016-1372: Fixed multiple vulnerabilities when processing crafted 7z

files (bsc#984650)

- CVE-2017-17969: Fixed a heap-based buffer overflow in a shrink decoder

(bsc#1077725)

- CVE-2018-5996: Fixed memory corruption in RAR decompression. The

complete RAR decoder was removed as it also has license issues

(bsc#1077724 bsc#1077978)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow important openSUSE p7zip

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 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-188=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

p7zip-9.20.1-18.3.1

p7zip-debuginfo-9.20.1-18.3.1

p7zip-debugsource-9.20.1-18.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1372.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17969.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5996.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1077724

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1077725

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1077978

https://bugzilla.suse.com/984650

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:0497-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 le.

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