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openSUSE Leap 15.3: 2022:0944-1 Moderate Memory Access Issue

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Calendar Grey March 24, 2022
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Important patch released for libarchive, fixing significant vulnerabilities and safeguarding system reliability on openSUSE Leap 15.3. Essential for all users!
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available

Description

This update for libarchive fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2021-36976: Fixed an invalid memory access that could cause data

corruption (bsc#1188572).

Non-security updates:

- Updated references for CVE-2017-5601, which was already fixed in a

previous version (bsc#1022528 bsc#1189528).

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2022-944=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

bsdtar-3.4.2-150200.4.3.1

bsdtar-debuginfo-3.4.2-150200.4.3.1

libarchive-debugsource-3.4.2-150200.4.3.1

libarchive-devel-3.4.2-150200.4.3.1

libarchive13-3.4.2-150200.4.3.1

libarchive13-debuginfo-3.4.2-150200.4.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (x86_64):

libarchive13-32bit-3.4.2-150200.4.3.1

libarchive13-32bit-debuginfo-3.4.2-150200.4.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5601.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-36976.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1022528

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188572

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189528

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2022:0944-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 ble.

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