Debian Security Advisory

DLA-554-1 libarchive -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

21 Jul 2016

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-8917, CVE-2015-8919, CVE-2015-8920, CVE-2015-8921, CVE-2015-8922, CVE-2015-8923, CVE-2015-8924, CVE-2015-8925, CVE-2015-8926, CVE-2015-8930, CVE-2015-8931, CVE-2015-8932, CVE-2015-8933, CVE-2015-8934, CVE-2016-4300, CVE-2016-4302, CVE-2016-4809, CVE-2016-5844.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libarchive, a library for reading and writing archives in various formats. An attacker can take advantage of these flaws to cause a denial-of-service against an application using the libarchive library (application crash), or potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 3.0.4-3+wheezy2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libarchive packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS