MGASA-2019-0030

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    MGASA-2019-0030

    Published: 11 Jan 2019Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated libarchive packages fix security vulnerabilities

    Details: read_header in archive_read_support_format_rar.c in libarchive 3.3.2 suffers from an off-by-one error for UTF-16 names in RAR archives, leading to an out-of-bounds read in archive_read_format_rar_read_header (CVE-2017-14502). Multiple security issues were found in libarchive: Processing malformed RAR archives could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code and malformed WARC, LHarc, ISO, Xar or CAB archives could result in denial of service (CVE-2018-1000877, CVE-2018-1000878, CVE-2018-1000879, CVE-2018-1000880).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0030.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24075, http://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2018-December/004927.html, https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4360

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libarchive

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/libarchive?arch=source&distro=mageia-6

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.3.1-1.4.mga6

    Affected versions

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