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RedHat RHSA-2019-3698-01 Moderate: Libarchive Security Update

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2019
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An update for libarchive is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The libarchive programming library can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including GNU tar, cpio, and ISO 9660 CD-ROM images. Libarchive is used notably in the bsdtar utility, scripting language bindings such as python-libarchive, and several popular desktop file managers.
Security Fix(es):
* libarchive: Double free in RAR decoder resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2018-1000877)
* libarchive: Use after free in RAR decoder resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2018-1000878)
* libarchive: Out of bounds read in archive_read_support_format_7zip.c resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2019-1000019)
* libarchive: Infinite recursion in archive_read_support_format_iso9660.c resulting in denial of service (CVE-2019-1000020)
* libarchive: Out-of-bounds read in lha_read_data_none (CVE-2017-14503)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Red Hat bug fix Moderate RHEL libarchive

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14503 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1000877 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1000878 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-1000019 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-1000020 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.1_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: libarchive-3.3.2-7.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: bsdcat-debuginfo-3.3.2-7.el8.aarch64.rpm bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.3.2-7.el8.aarch64.rpm bsdtar-3.3.2-7.el8.aarch64.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-3.3.2-7.el8.aarch64.rpm libarchive-3.3.2-7.el8.aarch64.rpm libarchive-debuginfo-3.3.2-7.el8.aarch64.rpm libarchive-debugsource-3.3.2-7.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: bsdcat-debuginfo-3.3.2-7.el8.ppc64le.rpm bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.3.2-7.el8.ppc64le.rpm bsdtar-3.3.2-7.el8.ppc64le.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-3.3.2-7.el8.ppc64le.rpm libarchive-3.3.2-7.el8.ppc64le.rpm libarchive-debuginfo-3.3.2-7.el8.ppc64le.rpm libarchive-debugsource-3.3.2-7.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: bsdcat-debuginfo-3.3.2-7.el8.s390x.rpm bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.3.2-7.el8.s390x.rpm bsdtar-3.3.2-7.el8.s390x.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-3.3.2-7.el8.s390x.rpm libarchive-3.3.2-7.el8.s390x.rpm libarchive-debuginfo-3.3.2-7.el8.s390x.rpm libarchive-debugsource-3.3.2-7.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: bsdcat-debuginfo-3.3.2-7.el8.i686.rpm bsdcat-debuginfo-3.3.2-7.el8.x86_64.rpm bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.3.2-7.el8.i686.rpm bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.3.2-7.el8.x86_64.rpm bsdtar-3.3.2-7.el8.x86_64.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-3.3.2-7.el8.i686.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-3.3.2-7.el8.x86_64.rpm libarchive-3.3.2-7.el8.i686.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:3698-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3698
Issue date: 2019-11-05

Topic

An update for libarchive is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Red Hat bug fix Moderate RHEL libarchive

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1494449 - CVE-2017-14503 libarchive: Out-of-bounds read in lha_read_data_none

1663887 - CVE-2018-1000877 libarchive: Double free in RAR decoder resulting in a denial of service

1663889 - CVE-2018-1000878 libarchive: Use after free in RAR decoder resulting in a denial of service

1672888 - CVE-2019-1000020 libarchive: Infinite recursion in archive_read_support_format_iso9660.c resulting in denial of service

1672892 - CVE-2019-1000019 libarchive: Out of bounds read in archive_read_support_format_7zip.c resulting in a denial of service

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