DSA-4557-1 libarchive -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4557-1 libarchive -- security update

Date Reported:

31 Oct 2019

Affected Packages:

libarchive

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-18408.

More information:

A use-after-free was found in libarchive, a multi-format archive and compression library, which could result in denial of service and potentially the execution of arbitrary code is a malformed archive is processed.

For the oldstable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 3.2.2-2+deb9u2.

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 3.3.3-4+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libarchive packages.

For the detailed security status of libarchive please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/libarchive