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A libarchive security update has been released for Fedora 32.



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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-235688c222
2020-03-20 00:14:28.620621
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Name : libarchive
Product : Fedora 32
Version : 3.4.2
Release : 1.fc32
URL :   https://www.libarchive.org/
Summary : A library for handling streaming archive formats
Description :
Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read several different
streaming archive formats, including most popular tar variants, several cpio
formats, and both BSD and GNU ar variants. It can also write shar archives and
read ISO9660 CDROM images and ZIP archives.

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Update Information:

Automatic update for libarchive-3.4.2-1.fc32.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Feb 12 2020 Ondrej Dubaj - 3.4.2-1
- Rebased to version 3.4.2
* Wed Jan 29 2020 Fedora Release Engineering - 3.4.0-2
- Rebuilt for   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_32_Mass_Rebuild
* Fri Aug 30 2019 FeRD (Frank Dana) - 3.4.0-1
- New upstream release, adds RAR5 and ZIPX support (readonly)
- Drop upstreamed patches
- Add upstreamed patch to fix test failure with libzstd-1.4.2
* Thu Jul 25 2019 Fedora Release Engineering - 3.3.3-8
- Rebuilt for   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_31_Mass_Rebuild
* Thu Mar 28 2019 Pavel Raiskup - 3.3.3-7
- simplify libtool hacks
* Tue Mar 19 2019 Ondrej Dubaj - 3.3.3-6
- applied various flaws (#1663893)
* Tue Mar 19 2019 Ondrej Dubaj - 3.3.3-5
- applied CVE patches (#1690071)
* Thu Mar 14 2019 Ondrej Dubaj - 3.3.3-4
- applied various flaws (#1672900)
* Fri Feb 1 2019 Fedora Release Engineering - 3.3.3-3
- Rebuilt for   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_30_Mass_Rebuild
* Mon Nov 26 2018 Pavel Raiskup - 3.3.3-2
- fix some covscan issues (rhbz#1602575)
- build-requires libzstd-devel (rhbz#1653046)
* Tue Oct 23 2018 Pavel Raiskup - 3.3.3-1
- the latest upstream release
* Wed Jul 18 2018 Pavel Raiskup - 3.3.2-3
- drop use of %ldconfig_scriptlets
* Fri Jul 13 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 3.3.2-2
- Rebuilt for   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1787791 - libarchive-3.4.2 is available
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1787791
[ 2 ] Bug #1801636 - CVE-2019-19221 libarchive: out-of-bounds read in archive_wstring_append_from_mbs in archive_string.c [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1801636
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-235688c222' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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