Advisories » MGASA-2022-0453

Updated libarchive packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 13 Dec 2022
Modification date: 13 Dec 2022
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2022-36227

Description

In libarchive 3.6.1, the software does not check for an error after
calling calloc function that can return with a NULL pointer if the
function fails, which leads to a resultant NULL pointer dereference.
(CVE-2022-36227)
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31179
• https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2022-November/013094.html
• https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/N4XUJQ5ZT6HWNXMENJI7BA5SJHZCQSOO/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-36227

SRPMS

8/core

• libarchive-3.6.1-1.1.mga8