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Red Hat 9 RHSA-2023:2532 Low Severity: Libarchive NULL Pointer Issue

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Calendar Grey May 9, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A Red Hat notification outlining a minor severity patch for libarchive, highlighting particular security considerations.
An update for libarchive is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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: NULL pointer dereference in archive_write.c (CVE-2022-36227)
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 9.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat Enterprise low severity NULL pointer archive utility libarchive

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-36227 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.2_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):
aarch64: bsdcat-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.aarch64.rpm bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.aarch64.rpm bsdtar-3.5.3-4.el9.aarch64.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.aarch64.rpm libarchive-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.aarch64.rpm libarchive-debugsource-3.5.3-4.el9.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: bsdcat-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.ppc64le.rpm bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.ppc64le.rpm bsdtar-3.5.3-4.el9.ppc64le.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.ppc64le.rpm libarchive-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.ppc64le.rpm libarchive-debugsource-3.5.3-4.el9.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: bsdcat-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.s390x.rpm bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.s390x.rpm bsdtar-3.5.3-4.el9.s390x.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.s390x.rpm libarchive-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.s390x.rpm libarchive-debugsource-3.5.3-4.el9.s390x.rpm
x86_64: bsdcat-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.x86_64.rpm bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.x86_64.rpm bsdtar-3.5.3-4.el9.x86_64.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.x86_64.rpm libarchive-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.x86_64.rpm libarchive-debugsource-3.5.3-4.el9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9):
Source: libarchive-3.5.3-4.el9.src.rpm
aarch64: bsdcat-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.aarch64.rpm bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.aarch64.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.aarch64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:2532-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2532
Issue date: 2023-05-09

Topic

An update for libarchive is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. 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 security update Red Hat Enterprise low severity NULL pointer archive utility libarchive

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2144972 - CVE-2022-36227 libarchive: NULL pointer dereference in archive_write.c

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