SUSE-SU-2018:3640-2

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    SUSE-SU-2018:3640-2

    Published: 6 Dec 2018Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Security update for libarchive

    Details: This update for libarchive fixes the following issues: - CVE-2016-10209: The archive_wstring_append_from_mbs function in archive_string.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted archive file. (bsc#1032089) - CVE-2016-10349: The archive_le32dec function in archive_endian.h allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted file. (bsc#1037008) - CVE-2016-10350: The archive_read_format_cab_read_header function in archive_read_support_format_cab.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted file. (bsc#1037009) - CVE-2017-14166: libarchive allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (xml_data heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted xar archive, related to the mishandling of empty strings in the atol8 function in archive_read_support_format_xar.c. (bsc#1057514) - CVE-2017-14501: An out-of-bounds read flaw existed in parse_file_info in archive_read_support_format_iso9660.c when extracting a specially crafted iso9660 iso file, related to archive_read_format_iso9660_read_header. (bsc#1059139) - CVE-2017-14502: read_header in archive_read_support_format_rar.c suffered 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. (bsc#1059134) - CVE-2017-14503: libarchive suffered 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. (bsc#1059100)

    References: https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2018/suse-su-20183640-2/, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1032089, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1037008, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1037009, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1057514, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1059100, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1059134, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1059139, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10209, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10349, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10350, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14166, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14501, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14502, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14503

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libarchive

    Purl: pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP4

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.1.2-26.3.1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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