Important: libarchive security update

Synopsis

Important: libarchive security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for libarchive is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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: use-after-free in archive_read_format_rar_read_data when there is an error in the decompression of an archive entry (CVE-2019-18408)
  

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.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.1 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.1 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.1 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.1 s390x
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1769979 - CVE-2019-18408 libarchive: use-after-free in archive_read_format_rar_read_data when there is an error in the decompression of an archive entry

CVEs

• CVE-2019-18408

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important