Oval Definition:oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20192298
Revision Date:2019-08-06Version:639
Title:RHSA-2019:2298: libarchive security update (Moderate)
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: Double free in RAR decoder resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2018-1000877)

  • libarchive: Use after free in RAR decoder resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2018-1000878)

  • libarchive: Out of bounds read in archive_read_support_format_7zip.c resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2019-1000019)

  • libarchive: Infinite recursion in archive_read_support_format_iso9660.c resulting in denial of service (CVE-2019-1000020)

  • libarchive: Out-of-bounds read in lha_read_data_none (CVE-2017-14503)

    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.

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.
  • Family:unixClass:patch
    Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-14503
    CVE-2018-1000877
    CVE-2018-1000878
    CVE-2019-1000019
    CVE-2019-1000020
    RHSA-2019:2298
    Platform(s):Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
    Product(s):
    Definition Synopsis
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed
  • OR Package Information
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is installed
  • AND
  • bsdcpio is earlier than 0:3.1.2-12.el7
  • AND bsdcpio is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • bsdtar is earlier than 0:3.1.2-12.el7
  • AND bsdtar is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • libarchive is earlier than 0:3.1.2-12.el7
  • AND libarchive is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • libarchive-devel is earlier than 0:3.1.2-12.el7
  • AND libarchive-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • BACK