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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:0246 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2020-01-27
Updated:
2020-01-27

RHSA-2020:0246 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Important: libarchive security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An update for libarchive is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The libarchive programming library can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including GNU tar, cpio, and ISO 9660 CD-ROM images. Libarchive is used notably in the bsdtar utility, scripting language bindings such as python-libarchive, and several popular desktop file managers.

Security Fix(es):

  • libarchive: use-after-free in archive_read_format_rar_read_data when there is an error in the decompression of an archive entry (CVE-2019-18408)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1769979 - CVE-2019-18408 libarchive: use-after-free in archive_read_format_rar_read_data when there is an error in the decompression of an archive entry

CVEs

  • CVE-2019-18408

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0

SRPM
libarchive-3.3.2-4.el8_0.src.rpm SHA-256: 4e884556d6ca479b85d5cabb5ec212601d6503dbb53efa5edc7a261171d25339
ppc64le
bsdcat-debuginfo-3.3.2-4.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 1ec616ead04f783810ae67ea143a7163e9b71e60ab6900e02a7cd31f095cc7eb
bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.3.2-4.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: aa25c56b0d3f8c247df8345cbe9efad191636ffb990234943de4dad84d89f7dc
bsdtar-3.3.2-4.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 86fce7bb604c858319cd27bb90f547234fc529c08ab928c5d5017cc7b66429db
bsdtar-debuginfo-3.3.2-4.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 1e92b2e1976e82eee5d3d61c4b3286e0551aa16cb3877325a1c6615e95a2d2fc
libarchive-3.3.2-4.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 0254911eb0df238625da2efe61fc543b0b75285122417b11f64913a0ed69a7ba
libarchive-debuginfo-3.3.2-4.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 9107707162a26f850f3220707f7d235e4be3ab32ef015d0ba95b7a9845463bfb
libarchive-debugsource-3.3.2-4.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 53b536abc763c7174246647f921e3f9a87f5508be16e1e3e4c29fc2f9df1d80c

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0

SRPM
libarchive-3.3.2-4.el8_0.src.rpm SHA-256: 4e884556d6ca479b85d5cabb5ec212601d6503dbb53efa5edc7a261171d25339
x86_64
bsdcat-debuginfo-3.3.2-4.el8_0.i686.rpm SHA-256: e1357e936cd6963a0871c93fc0af0daa017ce6de6200ee2bb48fe15f69d18a11
bsdcat-debuginfo-3.3.2-4.el8_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 5bc4d9d9dba6e2a25196782ec3b97e60cb4216f2d10612ce15080a647f5a0df8
bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.3.2-4.el8_0.i686.rpm SHA-256: 7dc57a7d105d3cf9b0977b6983199c1cb88c1506d37682fceff154cf67b774a7
bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.3.2-4.el8_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 5d883f5ce7d6cd07e26e552e59e007fa780d41586a4f128f5a5ac7ea5f660541
bsdtar-3.3.2-4.el8_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 19a49d9646dc9f751db9a20017afc7b3dee9cfe101bc83a2b05e04adfe0a14d9
bsdtar-debuginfo-3.3.2-4.el8_0.i686.rpm SHA-256: 756bef34219dd69528a66810c72c285379d437b61055afa088609938be6ac864
bsdtar-debuginfo-3.3.2-4.el8_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 692c1ea5240eb2ce7bbd44adf9083e5cfb307e9f2d7dcece4034cf5ff72427b2
libarchive-3.3.2-4.el8_0.i686.rpm SHA-256: c6078d252b3f8263ac223f5351634b37de9f6fb1ce45f45e0c5bbe57dd61ff57
libarchive-3.3.2-4.el8_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c7aa3c66ea8b1c05132d3f1cd228118801a9942318b07a1cb50b1256fe227b9d
libarchive-debuginfo-3.3.2-4.el8_0.i686.rpm SHA-256: 5c7974ff79a4a30e85b37c10c61b5badf11117412e3ad001165236231c40ef98
libarchive-debuginfo-3.3.2-4.el8_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 7e7c539c4b9e4e95cc1d8f9c17c2d2f5349be56425681fe9934ad00195c12326
libarchive-debugsource-3.3.2-4.el8_0.i686.rpm SHA-256: 5de0a4f41b179a08e78fc6a13da3c987f95f6d53a7096b92628fbf3b24943184
libarchive-debugsource-3.3.2-4.el8_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 97e3a940a19d30fda68cae6fbee77e12bc460e5fab8a292235c36590440d2f9a

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