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Slackware 15.0: libarchive Critical Buffer Overrun Fix SSA:2025-322-01

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Calendar Grey November 18, 2025
Dist Slackware Esm H88
New libarchive packages for Slackware 15.0 fix critical buffer overrun issues, enhancing security.
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-3.8.3-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements: lib: Create temporary files in the target directory (#2753) lha: Fix for an out-of-bounds buffer overrun when using p[H_LEVEL_OFFSET] (#2768) 7-zip: Fix a buffer overrun when reading truncated 7zip headers (#2769) (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical buffer overrun security fix 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-3.8.3-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-3.8.3-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/libarchive-3.8.3-i686-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/libarchive-3.8.3-x86_64-1.txz

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 9398927d9887128fa948db2f3116357c libarchive-3.8.3-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 59fd31a3b4bba0b64c1228081958c542 libarchive-3.8.3-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: bac4db1848d5bf1bb098ada81a5078b4 l/libarchive-3.8.3-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: a65b64666922861c2fac5a2039d87133 l/libarchive-3.8.3-x86_64-1.txz

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security advisory critical buffer overrun security fix slackware libarchive

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libarchive-3.8.3-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

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