DSA-1455-1 libarchive -- denial of service

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1455-1 libarchive -- denial of service

Date Reported:

08 Jan 2008

Affected Packages:

libarchive1

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 432924.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-3641, CVE-2007-3644, CVE-2007-3645.

More information:

Several local/remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in libarchive1, a single library to read/write tar, cpio, pax, zip, iso9660 archives. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

• CVE-2007-3641

  It was discovered that libarchive1 would miscompute the length of a buffer resulting in a buffer overflow if yet another type of corruption occurred in a pax extension header.

• CVE-2007-3644

  It was discovered that if an archive prematurely ended within a pax extension header the libarchive1 library could enter an infinite loop.

• CVE-2007-3645

  If an archive prematurely ended within a tar header, immediately following a pax extension header, libarchive1 could dereference a NULL pointer.

The old stable distribution (sarge), does not contain this package.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.53-2etch4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.4-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libarchive package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive_1.2.53-2etch4.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive_1.2.53.orig.tar.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive_1.2.53-2etch4.dsc

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-dev_1.2.53-2etch4_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/bsdtar_1.2.53-2etch4_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive1_1.2.53-2etch4_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/bsdtar_1.2.53-2etch4_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-dev_1.2.53-2etch4_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive1_1.2.53-2etch4_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive1_1.2.53-2etch4_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/bsdtar_1.2.53-2etch4_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-dev_1.2.53-2etch4_arm.deb

HP Precision:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/bsdtar_1.2.53-2etch4_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive1_1.2.53-2etch4_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-dev_1.2.53-2etch4_hppa.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive1_1.2.53-2etch4_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-dev_1.2.53-2etch4_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/bsdtar_1.2.53-2etch4_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-dev_1.2.53-2etch4_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive1_1.2.53-2etch4_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/bsdtar_1.2.53-2etch4_ia64.deb

Big-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/bsdtar_1.2.53-2etch4_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-dev_1.2.53-2etch4_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive1_1.2.53-2etch4_mips.deb

Little-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-dev_1.2.53-2etch4_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive1_1.2.53-2etch4_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/bsdtar_1.2.53-2etch4_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-dev_1.2.53-2etch4_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/bsdtar_1.2.53-2etch4_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive1_1.2.53-2etch4_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/bsdtar_1.2.53-2etch4_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-dev_1.2.53-2etch4_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive1_1.2.53-2etch4_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/bsdtar_1.2.53-2etch4_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive1_1.2.53-2etch4_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-dev_1.2.53-2etch4_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.