MGASA-2018-0361 - Updated libarchive packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 31 Aug 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0361.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 6
CVE: CVE-2017-14501,
     CVE-2017-14503

The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities:

An out-of-bounds read flaw exists in parse_file_info in 
archive_read_support_format_iso9660.c in libarchive 3.3.2 when
extracting a specially crafted iso9660 iso file, related to
archive_read_format_iso9660_read_header (CVE-2017-14501).

libarchive 3.3.2 suffers from an out-of-bounds read within
lha_read_data_none() in archive_read_support_format_lha.c when
extracting a specially crafted lha archive, related to lha_crc16
(CVE-2017-14503).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23437
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3736-1
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14501
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14503

SRPMS:
- 6/core/libarchive-3.3.1-1.2.mga6

Mageia 2018-0361: libarchive security update

The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: An out-of-bounds read flaw exists in parse_file_info in archive_read_support_format_iso9660.c in libarchive 3.3.2 when extracti...

Summary

The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities:
An out-of-bounds read flaw exists in parse_file_info in archive_read_support_format_iso9660.c in libarchive 3.3.2 when extracting a specially crafted iso9660 iso file, related to archive_read_format_iso9660_read_header (CVE-2017-14501).
libarchive 3.3.2 suffers from an out-of-bounds read within lha_read_data_none() in archive_read_support_format_lha.c when extracting a specially crafted lha archive, related to lha_crc16 (CVE-2017-14503).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23437

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3736-1

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14501

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14503

Resolution

MGASA-2018-0361 - Updated libarchive packages fix security vulnerabilities

SRPMS

- 6/core/libarchive-3.3.1-1.2.mga6

Severity
Publication date: 31 Aug 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0361.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2017-14501, CVE-2017-14503

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