RHEL 6 : libarchive (RHSA-2011:1507)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 56990

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated libarchive packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The libarchive programming library can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including GNU tar and cpio. It can also read ISO 9660 CD-ROM images.

Two heap-based buffer overflow flaws were discovered in libarchive. If a user were tricked into expanding a specially crafted ISO 9660 CD-ROM image or tar archive with an application using libarchive, it could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.
(CVE-2011-1777, CVE-2011-1778)

All libarchive users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. All running applications using libarchive must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Solution

Update the affected libarchive, libarchive-debuginfo and / or libarchive-devel packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-1777

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-1778

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:1507

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 56990

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-1507.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/2/2011

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libarchive, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libarchive-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libarchive-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/1/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/13/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1777, CVE-2011-1778

BID: 47737

RHSA: 2011:1507