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Slackware 15.0: 2025-079-01 critical: libarchive security issue

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Calendar Grey March 20, 2025
Dist Slackware Esm H88
New libarchive updates for Slackware 15.0 resolve critical vulnerabilities, featuring detailed installation guidelines.
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-3.7.8-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues: tar reader: Handle truncation in the middle of a GNU long linkname. unzip: fix null pointer dereference. tar reader: fix unchecked return value in list_item_verbose(). For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-57970 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-1632 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-25724 (* Security fix *)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical package update Slackware libarchive

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: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/libarchive-3.7.8-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/libarchive-3.7.8-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/libarchive-3.7.8-i686-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/libarchive-3.7.8-x86_64-1.txz

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 302344418cf8b418b8751eb3d609181a libarchive-3.7.8-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: b46e7d6f066aeb7709beb04ee67832b4 libarchive-3.7.8-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 168e93d41270cc87a3c85701407fa524 l/libarchive-3.7.8-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: e606d6be4636e49b2fcbf10445608f37 l/libarchive-3.7.8-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical package update Slackware libarchive

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libarchive-3.7.8-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

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