Updated libarchive packages fix security vulnerability
Publication date: 13 Dec 2022Type: 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