Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1612-1 libarchive -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

21 Dec 2018

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 916964, Bug 916963.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-1000877, CVE-2018-1000878.

More information:

Daniel Axtens discovered a double-free and use-after-free vulnerability in libarchive's RAR decoder that can result in a denial-of-service (application crash) or may have other unspecified impact when a malformed RAR archive is processed.

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 3.1.2-11+deb8u6.

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