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Slackware 14.1: SSA:2016-145-01 High: Libarchive Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey May 25, 2016
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Updated libarchive versions released for Slackware 14.1 to fix a buffer overflow vulnerability, improving overall system safety.
New libarchive packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libarchive-3.1.2-i486-2_slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. Patched an issue with Zip archive handling that could allow an attacker to overwrite parts of the heap in a controlled fashion and execute arbitrary code. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1541 (* Security fix *)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory high severity slackware heap overflow libarchive

Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 14.1 package: 36d7ea07c94eb19c7bddbb6b14085995 libarchive-3.1.2-i486-2_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 23098669ee8382889d926ef24ec00d91 libarchive-3.1.2-x86_64-2_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package: 0e1ce376d5fd570371e5ab98c9134d42 l/libarchive-3.1.2-i586-3.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 666d5136d4648aba95a55920fb9411fe l/libarchive-3.1.2-x86_64-3.txz

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory high severity slackware heap overflow libarchive

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libarchive-3.1.2-i486-2_slack14.1.txz