A libarchive security update has been released for Slackware 14.1, 14.2, 15.0, and -current.

slackware-security: libarchive (SSA:2022-343-01)

[slackware-security] libarchive (SSA:2022-343-01)

New libarchive packages are available for Slackware 14.1, 14.2, 15.0,
and -current to fix security issues.

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog:
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patches/packages/libarchive-3.6.2-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded.
This is a bugfix and security release.
Relevant bugfixes:
rar5 reader: fix possible garbled output with bsdtar -O (#1745)
mtree reader: support reading mtree files with tabs (#1783)
Security fixes:
various small fixes for issues found by CodeQL
(* Security fix *)
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Where to find the new packages:
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Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(  http://osuosl.org) for donating FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project! :-)

Also see the "Get Slack" section on   http://slackware.com for
additional mirror sites near you.

Updated package for Slackware 14.1:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/libarchive-3.6.2-i486-1_slack14.1.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/libarchive-3.6.2-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz

Updated package for Slackware 14.2:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/patches/packages/libarchive-3.6.2-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/packages/libarchive-3.6.2-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz

Updated package for Slackware 15.0:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/libarchive-3.6.2-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/libarchive-3.6.2-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware -current:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/libarchive-3.6.2-i586-1.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/libarchive-3.6.2-x86_64-1.txz

MD5 signatures:
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Slackware 14.1 package:
120412a3a1d3546881bbf3ce352bf7d7 libarchive-3.6.2-i486-1_slack14.1.txz

Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
39273c189c4d71bfadf85e4b74725eeb libarchive-3.6.2-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz

Slackware 14.2 package:
6cbd377811318b1df06e897f68eed391 libarchive-3.6.2-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
ae2cff0b6665f38d928d8c5026a51209 libarchive-3.6.2-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz

Slackware 15.0 package:
56db21a5318598e49fca530170364939 libarchive-3.6.2-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
d9925bb092083e1a11385e30152e0acb libarchive-3.6.2-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz

Slackware -current package:
8a4c7b78f42d318989dd45fd91e1fca5 l/libarchive-3.6.2-i586-1.txz

Slackware x86_64 -current package:
82add188b69fcba8d0a086ba8cf7f8a6 l/libarchive-3.6.2-x86_64-1.txz

Installation instructions:
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Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg libarchive-3.6.2-i586-1_slack15.0.txz