A libarchive security update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: libarchive security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:0271-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0271
Issue date: 2020-01-29
CVE Names: CVE-2019-18408
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1. Summary:
An update for libarchive is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability
from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
3. Description:
The libarchive programming library can create and read several different
streaming archive formats, including GNU tar, cpio, and ISO 9660 CD-ROM
images. Libarchive is used notably in the bsdtar utility, scripting
language bindings such as python-libarchive, and several popular desktop
file managers.
Security Fix(es):
* libarchive: use-after-free in archive_read_format_rar_read_data when
there is an error in the decompression of an archive entry (CVE-2019-18408)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.
4. Solution:
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
5. Bugs fixed ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1769979 - CVE-2019-18408 libarchive: use-after-free in archive_read_format_rar_read_data when there is an error in the decompression of an archive entry
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source:
libarchive-3.3.2-8.el8_1.src.rpm
aarch64:
bsdcat-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.aarch64.rpm
bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.aarch64.rpm
bsdtar-3.3.2-8.el8_1.aarch64.rpm
bsdtar-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.aarch64.rpm
libarchive-3.3.2-8.el8_1.aarch64.rpm
libarchive-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.aarch64.rpm
libarchive-debugsource-3.3.2-8.el8_1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le:
bsdcat-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
bsdtar-3.3.2-8.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
bsdtar-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
libarchive-3.3.2-8.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
libarchive-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
libarchive-debugsource-3.3.2-8.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
bsdcat-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.s390x.rpm
bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.s390x.rpm
bsdtar-3.3.2-8.el8_1.s390x.rpm
bsdtar-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.s390x.rpm
libarchive-3.3.2-8.el8_1.s390x.rpm
libarchive-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.s390x.rpm
libarchive-debugsource-3.3.2-8.el8_1.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
bsdcat-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.i686.rpm
bsdcat-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.i686.rpm
bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
bsdtar-3.3.2-8.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
bsdtar-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.i686.rpm
bsdtar-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
libarchive-3.3.2-8.el8_1.i686.rpm
libarchive-3.3.2-8.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
libarchive-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.i686.rpm
libarchive-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
libarchive-debugsource-3.3.2-8.el8_1.i686.rpm
libarchive-debugsource-3.3.2-8.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8):
aarch64:
bsdcat-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.aarch64.rpm
bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.aarch64.rpm
bsdtar-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.aarch64.rpm
libarchive-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.aarch64.rpm
libarchive-debugsource-3.3.2-8.el8_1.aarch64.rpm
libarchive-devel-3.3.2-8.el8_1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le:
bsdcat-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
bsdtar-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
libarchive-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
libarchive-debugsource-3.3.2-8.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
libarchive-devel-3.3.2-8.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
bsdcat-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.s390x.rpm
bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.s390x.rpm
bsdtar-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.s390x.rpm
libarchive-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.s390x.rpm
libarchive-debugsource-3.3.2-8.el8_1.s390x.rpm
libarchive-devel-3.3.2-8.el8_1.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
bsdcat-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.i686.rpm
bsdcat-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.i686.rpm
bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
bsdtar-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.i686.rpm
bsdtar-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
libarchive-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.i686.rpm
libarchive-debuginfo-3.3.2-8.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
libarchive-debugsource-3.3.2-8.el8_1.i686.rpm
libarchive-debugsource-3.3.2-8.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
libarchive-devel-3.3.2-8.el8_1.i686.rpm
libarchive-devel-3.3.2-8.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
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https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-18408
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is . More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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