Mageia 2022-0453: libarchive security update
In libarchive 3.6.1, the software does not check for an error after calling calloc function that can return with a NULL pointer if the function fails, which leads to a resultant NU...
Summary
In libarchive 3.6.1, the software does not check for an error after
calling calloc function that can return with a NULL pointer if the
function fails, which leads to a resultant NULL pointer dereference.
(CVE-2022-36227)
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31179
- https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2022-November/013094.html
- https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/N4XUJQ5ZT6HWNXMENJI7BA5SJHZCQSOO/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-36227
Resolution
MGASA-2022-0453 - Updated libarchive packages fix security vulnerability
SRPMS
- 8/core/libarchive-3.6.1-1.1.mga8
Severity
Publication date: 13 Dec 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0453.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-36227
