Advisories » MGASA-2022-0060

Updated libarchive packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 12 Feb 2022
Modification date: 12 Feb 2022
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2021-31566 , CVE-2021-36976

Description

Processing fixup entries may follow symbolic links. (CVE-2021-31566)

libarchive 3.4.1 through 3.5.1 has a use-after-free in copy_string (called
from do_uncompress_block and process_block). (CVE-2021-36976)
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30023
• https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/releases/tag/v3.5.3
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-31566
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-36976

SRPMS

8/core

• libarchive-3.5.3-1.mga8