Issued:

2023-05-09

Updated:

2023-05-09

RHSA-2023:2532 - Low: libarchive security update

Synopsis

Low: libarchive security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Low

Topic

An update for libarchive is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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: NULL pointer dereference in archive_write.c (CVE-2022-36227)

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 9.2 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

Updated Packages

• bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.aarch64.rpm
• bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.s390x.rpm
• bsdtar-3.5.3-4.el9.aarch64.rpm
• bsdcat-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.s390x.rpm
• libarchive-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.i686.rpm
• libarchive-debugsource-3.5.3-4.el9.aarch64.rpm
• libarchive-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.ppc64le.rpm
• libarchive-devel-3.5.3-4.el9.x86_64.rpm
• bsdtar-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.i686.rpm
• bsdtar-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.s390x.rpm
• libarchive-3.5.3-4.el9.ppc64le.rpm
• libarchive-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.x86_64.rpm
• libarchive-devel-3.5.3-4.el9.s390x.rpm
• bsdtar-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.x86_64.rpm
• libarchive-devel-3.5.3-4.el9.i686.rpm
• libarchive-devel-3.5.3-4.el9.ppc64le.rpm
• libarchive-3.5.3-4.el9.aarch64.rpm
• bsdcat-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.i686.rpm
• libarchive-3.5.3-4.el9.x86_64.rpm
• libarchive-debugsource-3.5.3-4.el9.i686.rpm
• libarchive-debugsource-3.5.3-4.el9.x86_64.rpm
• bsdtar-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.aarch64.rpm
• libarchive-debugsource-3.5.3-4.el9.s390x.rpm
• bsdcat-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.x86_64.rpm
• libarchive-3.5.3-4.el9.i686.rpm
• libarchive-devel-3.5.3-4.el9.aarch64.rpm
• bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.i686.rpm
• libarchive-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.s390x.rpm
• bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.ppc64le.rpm
• libarchive-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.aarch64.rpm
• bsdcat-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.aarch64.rpm
• libarchive-debugsource-3.5.3-4.el9.ppc64le.rpm
• bsdtar-3.5.3-4.el9.s390x.rpm
• bsdtar-3.5.3-4.el9.ppc64le.rpm
• bsdcat-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.ppc64le.rpm
• bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.x86_64.rpm
• libarchive-3.5.3-4.el9.s390x.rpm
• libarchive-3.5.3-4.el9.src.rpm
• bsdtar-3.5.3-4.el9.x86_64.rpm
• bsdtar-debuginfo-3.5.3-4.el9.ppc64le.rpm

Fixes

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CVEs

• CVE-2022-36227

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.2_release_notes/index

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.