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

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Important security notice regarding several vulnerabilities in libarchive that affect Red Hat environments, along with recommended remediation steps.
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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