Fedora 39: libarchive 2024-b15a51292f Security Advisory Updates
Summary
Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read several different
streaming archive formats, including most popular tar variants, several cpio
formats, and both BSD and GNU ar variants. It can also write shar archives and
read ISO9660 CDROM images and ZIP archives.
Update Information:
Fix for CVE-2024-26256
Change Log
* Mon May 27 2024 Lukas Javorsky
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2282529 - CVE-2024-26256 libarchive: Heap based buffer overflow in rar e8 filter [fedora-39]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2282529
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-b15a51292f' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label