vulnerability

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2021-36976: Medium priority package update for libarchive

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 22, 2021
Added
Feb 17, 2025
Modified
Jul 4, 2025

Description

libarchive 3.4.1 through 3.5.1 has a use-after-free in copy_string (called from do_uncompress_block and process_block).
A use-after-free flaw was found in libarchive in the copy_string function.

Solutions

amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-bsdcatamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-bsdcat-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-bsdcpioamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-bsdcpio-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-bsdtaramazon-linux-2023-upgrade-bsdtar-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-libarchiveamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-libarchive-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-libarchive-debugsourceamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-libarchive-devel
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