Issued:
2019-08-06
Updated:
2019-08-06

RHSA-2019:2298 - Moderate: libarchive security update

Synopsis

Moderate: libarchive security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for libarchive is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The libarchive programming library can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including GNU tar, cpio, and ISO 9660 CD-ROM images. Libarchive is used notably in the bsdtar utility, scripting language bindings such as python-libarchive, and several popular desktop file managers.

Security Fix(es):

  • libarchive: Double free in RAR decoder resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2018-1000877)

  • libarchive: Use after free in RAR decoder resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2018-1000878)

  • libarchive: Out of bounds read in archive_read_support_format_7zip.c resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2019-1000019)

  • libarchive: Infinite recursion in archive_read_support_format_iso9660.c resulting in denial of service (CVE-2019-1000020)

  • libarchive: Out-of-bounds read in lha_read_data_none (CVE-2017-14503)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop7x86_64

Updated Packages

  • libarchive-3.1.2-12.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • libarchive-devel-3.1.2-12.el7.i686.rpm
  • libarchive-devel-3.1.2-12.el7.s390x.rpm
  • libarchive-devel-3.1.2-12.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • libarchive-3.1.2-12.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • libarchive-3.1.2-12.el7.s390x.rpm
  • bsdcpio-3.1.2-12.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • libarchive-3.1.2-12.el7.s390.rpm
  • libarchive-debuginfo-3.1.2-12.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • bsdcpio-3.1.2-12.el7.s390x.rpm
  • bsdtar-3.1.2-12.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • libarchive-3.1.2-12.el7.ppc.rpm
  • libarchive-debuginfo-3.1.2-12.el7.s390x.rpm
  • bsdtar-3.1.2-12.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • libarchive-3.1.2-12.el7.i686.rpm
  • libarchive-3.1.2-12.el7.src.rpm
  • libarchive-debuginfo-3.1.2-12.el7.i686.rpm
  • libarchive-devel-3.1.2-12.el7.ppc.rpm
  • libarchive-debuginfo-3.1.2-12.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • libarchive-devel-3.1.2-12.el7.s390.rpm
  • bsdtar-3.1.2-12.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • bsdcpio-3.1.2-12.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • libarchive-debuginfo-3.1.2-12.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • bsdtar-3.1.2-12.el7.s390x.rpm
  • libarchive-3.1.2-12.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • libarchive-devel-3.1.2-12.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • libarchive-debuginfo-3.1.2-12.el7.s390.rpm
  • bsdcpio-3.1.2-12.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • libarchive-devel-3.1.2-12.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • libarchive-debuginfo-3.1.2-12.el7.ppc.rpm

Fixes

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References

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