A libarchive security update has been released for Oracle Linux 8.

El-errata: ELSA-2022-0892 Moderate: Oracle Linux 8 libarchive security update

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2022-0892

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2022-0892.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
bsdtar-3.3.3-3.el8_5.x86_64.rpm
libarchive-3.3.3-3.el8_5.i686.rpm
libarchive-3.3.3-3.el8_5.x86_64.rpm
libarchive-devel-3.3.3-3.el8_5.i686.rpm
libarchive-devel-3.3.3-3.el8_5.x86_64.rpm

aarch64:
bsdtar-3.3.3-3.el8_5.aarch64.rpm
libarchive-3.3.3-3.el8_5.aarch64.rpm
libarchive-devel-3.3.3-3.el8_5.aarch64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/libarchive-3.3.3-3.el8_5.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2021-23177
CVE-2021-31566



Description of changes:

[3.3.3-3]
- Do not follow symlinks when processing the fixup list (CVE-2021-31566)

[3.3.3-2]
- Fix handling of symbolic link ACLs (CVE-2021-23177)

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