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Red Hat: RHSA-2020:4443-01 Moderate: Libarchive Out-of-Bounds Fix

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Calendar Grey November 3, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Explore the latest security enhancements concerning libarchive for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, including details on the patching process.
An update for libarchive is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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: out-of-bounds read in archive_wstring_append_from_mbs in archive_string.c (CVE-2019-19221)
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 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate red hat software update security fix out-of-bounds libarchive

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-19221 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.3_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: libarchive-3.3.2-9.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: bsdcat-debuginfo-3.3.2-9.el8.aarch64.rpm bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.3.2-9.el8.aarch64.rpm bsdtar-3.3.2-9.el8.aarch64.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-3.3.2-9.el8.aarch64.rpm libarchive-3.3.2-9.el8.aarch64.rpm libarchive-debuginfo-3.3.2-9.el8.aarch64.rpm libarchive-debugsource-3.3.2-9.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: bsdcat-debuginfo-3.3.2-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.3.2-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm bsdtar-3.3.2-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-3.3.2-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm libarchive-3.3.2-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm libarchive-debuginfo-3.3.2-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm libarchive-debugsource-3.3.2-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: bsdcat-debuginfo-3.3.2-9.el8.s390x.rpm bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.3.2-9.el8.s390x.rpm bsdtar-3.3.2-9.el8.s390x.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-3.3.2-9.el8.s390x.rpm libarchive-3.3.2-9.el8.s390x.rpm libarchive-debuginfo-3.3.2-9.el8.s390x.rpm libarchive-debugsource-3.3.2-9.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: bsdcat-debuginfo-3.3.2-9.el8.i686.rpm bsdcat-debuginfo-3.3.2-9.el8.x86_64.rpm bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.3.2-9.el8.i686.rpm bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.3.2-9.el8.x86_64.rpm bsdtar-3.3.2-9.el8.x86_64.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-3.3.2-9.el8.i686.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-3.3.2-9.el8.x86_64.rpm libarchive-3.3.2-9.el8.i686.rpm libarchive-3.3.2-9.el8.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:4443-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4443
Issue date: 2020-11-03

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 impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate red hat software update security fix out-of-bounds 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

1801635 - CVE-2019-19221 libarchive: out-of-bounds read in archive_wstring_append_from_mbs in archive_string.c

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