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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 202309-14
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Severity: Normal
Title: libarchive: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Date: September 29, 2023
Bugs: #882521, #911486
ID: 202309-14

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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libarchive, the worst of
which could result in denial of service.

Background
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libarchive is a library for manipulating different streaming archive
formats, including certain tar variants, several cpio formats, and both
BSD and GNU ar variants.

Affected packages
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Package Vulnerable Unaffected
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app-arch/libarchive < 3.7.1 >= 3.7.1

Description
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libarchive. Please
review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact
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Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All libarchive users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-arch/libarchive-3.7.1"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2022-36227
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-36227

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-14

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2023 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

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