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SUSE: CVE-2021-36976: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2021-36976: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/20/2021
Created
10/26/2022
Added
10/26/2022
Modified
10/26/2022

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).

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-bsdtar
  • suse-upgrade-libarchive-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libarchive13
  • suse-upgrade-libarchive13-32bit

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