Oval Definition:oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20200271
Revision Date:2020-01-29Version:635
Title:RHSA-2020:0271: libarchive security update (Important)
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.
  • Family:unixClass:patch
    Status:Reference(s):CVE-2019-18408
    RHSA-2020:0271
    Platform(s):Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
    Product(s):
    Definition Synopsis
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed
  • OR Package Information
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is installed
  • OR Red Hat CoreOS 4 is installed
  • AND
  • bsdtar is earlier than 0:3.3.2-8.el8_1
  • AND bsdtar is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • libarchive is earlier than 0:3.3.2-8.el8_1
  • AND libarchive is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • libarchive-devel is earlier than 0:3.3.2-8.el8_1
  • AND libarchive-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • BACK