CentOS Linux: CVE-2018-1000877: Moderate: libarchive security update (Multiple Advisories)
Description
libarchive version commit 416694915449219d505531b1096384f3237dd6cc onwards (release v3.1.0 onwards) contains a CWE-415: Double Free vulnerability in RAR decoder - libarchive/archive_read_support_format_rar.c, parse_codes(), realloc(rar->lzss.window, new_size) with new_size = 0 that can result in Crash/DoS. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim must open a specially crafted RAR archive.
Solution(s)
- centos-upgrade-bsdcat-debuginfo
- centos-upgrade-bsdcpio
- centos-upgrade-bsdcpio-debuginfo
- centos-upgrade-bsdtar
- centos-upgrade-bsdtar-debuginfo
- centos-upgrade-libarchive
- centos-upgrade-libarchive-debuginfo
- centos-upgrade-libarchive-debugsource
- centos-upgrade-libarchive-devel
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