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Red Hat: RHSA-2022:0892-01 Moderate: Libarchive Security Update

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Calendar Grey March 15, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Fedora publishes a significant patch for libarchive, resolving various vulnerabilities. Discover further details here.
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: extracting a symlink with ACLs modifies ACLs of target (CVE-2021-23177)
* libarchive: symbolic links incorrectly followed when changing modes, times, ACL and flags of a file while extracting an archive (CVE-2021-31566)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue red hat libarchive archive management

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23177 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-31566 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: libarchive-3.3.3-3.el8_5.src.rpm
aarch64: bsdcat-debuginfo-3.3.3-3.el8_5.aarch64.rpm bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.3.3-3.el8_5.aarch64.rpm bsdtar-3.3.3-3.el8_5.aarch64.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-3.3.3-3.el8_5.aarch64.rpm libarchive-3.3.3-3.el8_5.aarch64.rpm libarchive-debuginfo-3.3.3-3.el8_5.aarch64.rpm libarchive-debugsource-3.3.3-3.el8_5.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: bsdcat-debuginfo-3.3.3-3.el8_5.ppc64le.rpm bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.3.3-3.el8_5.ppc64le.rpm bsdtar-3.3.3-3.el8_5.ppc64le.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-3.3.3-3.el8_5.ppc64le.rpm libarchive-3.3.3-3.el8_5.ppc64le.rpm libarchive-debuginfo-3.3.3-3.el8_5.ppc64le.rpm libarchive-debugsource-3.3.3-3.el8_5.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: bsdcat-debuginfo-3.3.3-3.el8_5.s390x.rpm bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.3.3-3.el8_5.s390x.rpm bsdtar-3.3.3-3.el8_5.s390x.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-3.3.3-3.el8_5.s390x.rpm libarchive-3.3.3-3.el8_5.s390x.rpm libarchive-debuginfo-3.3.3-3.el8_5.s390x.rpm libarchive-debugsource-3.3.3-3.el8_5.s390x.rpm
x86_64: bsdcat-debuginfo-3.3.3-3.el8_5.i686.rpm bsdcat-debuginfo-3.3.3-3.el8_5.x86_64.rpm bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.3.3-3.el8_5.i686.rpm bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.3.3-3.el8_5.x86_64.rpm bsdtar-3.3.3-3.el8_5.x86_64.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-3.3.3-3.el8_5.i686.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-3.3.3-3.el8_5.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:0892-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0892
Issue date: 2022-03-15

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue red hat libarchive archive management

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

2024237 - CVE-2021-31566 libarchive: symbolic links incorrectly followed when changing modes, times, ACL and flags of a file while extracting an archive

2024245 - CVE-2021-23177 libarchive: extracting a symlink with ACLs modifies ACLs of target

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