Fedora 40: libarchive 2024-80e4603b92 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-2024-48957 Automatic update for libarchive-3.7.2-6.fc40.
Change Log
* Mon Oct 14 2024 Lukas Javorsky
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2317764 - CVE-2024-48957 libarchive: Out-of-bounds access in libarchive's archive file handling [fedora-40]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2317764
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-80e4603b92' 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