Debian Security Advisory
DSA-3574-1 libarchive -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 10 May 2016
- Affected Packages:
- libarchive
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 823893.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-1541. - More information:
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Rock Stevens, Andrew Ruef and Marcin
Icewall
Noga discovered a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the zip_read_mac_metadata function in libarchive, a multi-format archive and compression library, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code if a user or automated system is tricked into processing a specially crafted ZIP file.For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 3.1.2-11+deb8u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libarchive packages.