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Slackware 15.0: 2024-116-01 Moderate Risk: Libarchive Out-Of-Bounds Exec

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Calendar Grey April 25, 2024
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Fresh libarchive updates for Slackware 15.0 tackle a significant security vulnerability. It is advisable to upgrade to reduce potential threats.
New libarchive packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libarchive-3.7.3-i586-2_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. Patched an out-of-bound error in the rar e8 filter that could allow for the execution of arbitrary code. Thanks to gmgf for the heads-up. For more information, see: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2jc9-36w4-pmqw https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26256 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical fix slackware moderate risk libarchive out-of-bounds execution

Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://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 15.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 52740a0d6b013049b82d69ed3f84b8be libarchive-3.7.3-i586-2_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 182956f6064878e1f981297c3cf21d63 libarchive-3.7.3-x86_64-2_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 360dd49a8f464b91f1f484f2c3cd5973 l/libarchive-3.7.3-i586-2.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: e557e74eda420e85669c2cc7eb9b2500 l/libarchive-3.7.3-x86_64-2.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical fix slackware moderate risk libarchive out-of-bounds execution

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libarchive-3.7.3-i586-2_slack15.0.txz