ALSA-2020:4443

Source
https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2020-4443.html
Import Source
https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2020:4443.json
Related
Published
2020-11-03T12:05:06Z
Modified
2021-08-11T08:54:00Z
Summary
Moderate: libarchive security update
Details

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: out-of-bounds read in archivewstringappendfrommbs in archive_string.c (CVE-2019-19221)

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 AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

References

Affected packages

AlmaLinux:8 / libarchive-devel

Package

Name
libarchive-devel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0The exact introduced commit is unknown
Fixed
3.3.2-9.el8