Slackware 15.0 Libarchive Security Advisory 2024-258-01: Critical Fixes
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September 14, 2024
New libarchive packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libarchive-3.7.5-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes the following security issues: fix multiple vulnerabilities identified by SAST (#2251, #2256) cpio: ignore out-of-range gid/uid/size/ino and harden AFIO parsing (#2258) lzop: prevent integer overflow (#2174) rar4: protect copy_from_lzss_window_to_unp() (#2172, CVE-2024-20696) rar4: fix CVE-2024-26256 (#2269) rar4: fix OOB in delta and audio filter (#2148, #2149) rar4: fix out of boundary access with large files (#2179) rar4: add boundary checks to rgb filter (#2210) rar4: fix OOB access with unicode filenames (#2203) rar5: clear 'data ready' cache on window buffer reallocs (#2265) rpm: calculate huge header sizes correctly (#2158) unzip: unify EOF handling (#2175) util: fix out of boundary access in mktemp functions (#2160) uu: stop processing if lines are too long (#2168) For more information, see:
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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:
f3b7cdacc3d264f4bcc20f078c0c22b4 libarchive-3.7.5-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
2845ee62628435d7995d5351d6e84e79 libarchive-3.7.5-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package:
cb11536dc6673f3c6b848229129d0363 l/libarchive-3.7.5-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
35ec40489069558505b9db8bd66ca2c2 l/libarchive-3.7.5-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libarchive-3.7.5-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
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