Debian Security Advisory
DLA-810-1 libarchive -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 31 Jan 2017
- Affected Packages:
- libarchive
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-5601.
- More information:
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It was discovered that there was a heap buffer overflow in libarchive, a multi-format archive and compression library.
For Debian 7
Wheezy
, this issue has been fixed in libarchive version 3.0.4-3+wheezy5+deb7u1.We recommend that you upgrade your libarchive packages.