Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1455-1 libarchive -- denial of service
- Date Reported:
- 08 Jan 2008
- Affected Packages:
- libarchive1
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 432924.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-3641, CVE-2007-3644, CVE-2007-3645. - More information:
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Several local/remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in libarchive1, a single library to read/write tar, cpio, pax, zip, iso9660 archives. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
- CVE-2007-3641
It was discovered that libarchive1 would miscompute the length of a buffer resulting in a buffer overflow if yet another type of corruption occurred in a pax extension header.
- CVE-2007-3644
It was discovered that if an archive prematurely ended within a pax extension header the libarchive1 library could enter an infinite loop.
- CVE-2007-3645
If an archive prematurely ended within a tar header, immediately following a pax extension header, libarchive1 could dereference a NULL pointer.
The old stable distribution (sarge), does not contain this package.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.53-2etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.4-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libarchive package.
- CVE-2007-3641
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive_1.2.53-2etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive_1.2.53.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive_1.2.53-2etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive_1.2.53.orig.tar.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-dev_1.2.53-2etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/bsdtar_1.2.53-2etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive1_1.2.53-2etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/bsdtar_1.2.53-2etch1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/bsdtar_1.2.53-2etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-dev_1.2.53-2etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive1_1.2.53-2etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-dev_1.2.53-2etch1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive1_1.2.53-2etch1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/bsdtar_1.2.53-2etch1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-dev_1.2.53-2etch1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/bsdtar_1.2.53-2etch1_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/bsdtar_1.2.53-2etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive1_1.2.53-2etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-dev_1.2.53-2etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive1_1.2.53-2etch1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive1_1.2.53-2etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-dev_1.2.53-2etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/bsdtar_1.2.53-2etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-dev_1.2.53-2etch1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-dev_1.2.53-2etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive1_1.2.53-2etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/bsdtar_1.2.53-2etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive1_1.2.53-2etch1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/bsdtar_1.2.53-2etch1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-dev_1.2.53-2etch1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive1_1.2.53-2etch1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-dev_1.2.53-2etch1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-dev_1.2.53-2etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive1_1.2.53-2etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/bsdtar_1.2.53-2etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive1_1.2.53-2etch1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-dev_1.2.53-2etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/bsdtar_1.2.53-2etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive1_1.2.53-2etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/bsdtar_1.2.53-2etch1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/bsdtar_1.2.53-2etch1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-dev_1.2.53-2etch1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive1_1.2.53-2etch1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-dev_1.2.53-2etch1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/bsdtar_1.2.53-2etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive1_1.2.53-2etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-dev_1.2.53-2etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive1_1.2.53-2etch1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.