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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1668-1 libarchive -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

07 Feb 2019

Affected Packages:

libarchive

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-1000019, CVE-2019-1000020.

More information:

Fuzzing found two further file-format specific issues in libarchive, a read-only segfault in 7z, and an infinite loop in ISO9660.

• CVE-2019-1000019

  Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in 7zip decompression, that can result in a crash (denial of service, CWE-125)

• CVE-2019-1000020

  Vulnerability in ISO9660 parser that can result in DoS by infinite loop (CWE-835)

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 3.1.2-11+deb8u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your libarchive packages.

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