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New libarchive packages have just dropped for Slackware 15.0 and -current. The update tackles a whole bunch of vulnerabilities, including cpio, lzop, rar4, out of boundary access, delta and audio filters, large files, rgb filters, unicode filenames, a clear 'data ready' cache, rpm, unzip, util, and uu.

libarchive (SSA:2024-258-01)




libarchive (SSA:2024-258-01)


libarchive (SSA:2024-258-01)

New libarchive packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to
fix security issues.

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog:
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patches/packages/libarchive-3.7.5-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded.
This update fixes the following security issues:
fix multiple vulnerabilities identified by SAST (#2251, #2256)
cpio: ignore out-of-range gid/uid/size/ino and harden AFIO parsing (#2258)
lzop: prevent integer overflow (#2174)
rar4: protect copy_from_lzss_window_to_unp() (#2172, CVE-2024-20696)
rar4: fix CVE-2024-26256 (#2269)
rar4: fix OOB in delta and audio filter (#2148, #2149)
rar4: fix out of boundary access with large files (#2179)
rar4: add boundary checks to rgb filter (#2210)
rar4: fix OOB access with unicode filenames (#2203)
rar5: clear 'data ready' cache on window buffer reallocs (#2265)
rpm: calculate huge header sizes correctly (#2158)
unzip: unify EOF handling (#2175)
util: fix out of boundary access in mktemp functions (#2160)
uu: stop processing if lines are too long (#2168)
For more information, see:
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-20696
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26256
(* Security fix *)
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Where to find the new packages:
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Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
( http://osuosl.org) for donating FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project! :-)

Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://slackware.com for
additional mirror sites near you.

Updated package for Slackware 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/libarchive-3.7.5-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/libarchive-3.7.5-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/libarchive-3.7.5-i686-1.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/libarchive-3.7.5-x86_64-1.txz

MD5 signatures:
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Slackware 15.0 package:
f3b7cdacc3d264f4bcc20f078c0c22b4 libarchive-3.7.5-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
2845ee62628435d7995d5351d6e84e79 libarchive-3.7.5-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz

Slackware -current package:
cb11536dc6673f3c6b848229129d0363 l/libarchive-3.7.5-i686-1.txz

Slackware x86_64 -current package:
35ec40489069558505b9db8bd66ca2c2 l/libarchive-3.7.5-x86_64-1.txz

Installation instructions:
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Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg libarchive-3.7.5-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

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