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A libarchive security update has been released for Fedora 37.



SECURITY: Fedora 37 Update: libarchive-3.6.1-3.fc37


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-e15be0091f
2022-12-19 01:14:07.970062
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Name : libarchive
Product : Fedora 37
Version : 3.6.1
Release : 3.fc37
URL :   https://www.libarchive.org/
Summary : A library for handling streaming archive formats
Description :
Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read several different
streaming archive formats, including most popular tar variants, several cpio
formats, and both BSD and GNU ar variants. It can also write shar archives and
read ISO9660 CDROM images and ZIP archives.

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Update Information:

Fix for CVE-2022-36227
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Dec 2 2022 Lukas Javorsky - 3.6.1-3
- Resolves: CVE-2022-36227
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2144974 - CVE-2022-36227 libarchive: Null pointer dereference in archive_write.c [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2144974
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-e15be0091f' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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