Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libarchive (MDVSA-2013:147)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66157

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Synopsis

The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in libarchive :

Fabian Yamaguchi reported a read buffer overflow flaw in libarchive on 64-bit systems where sizeof(size_t) is equal to 8. In the archive_write_zip_data() function in libarchive/ archive_write_set_format_zip.c, the 's' parameter is of type size_t (64 bit, unsigned) and is cast to a 64 bit signed integer. If 's' is larger than MAX_INT, it will not be set to 'zip->remaining_data_bytes' even though it is larger than 'zip->remaining_data_bytes', which leads to a buffer overflow when calling deflate(). This can lead to a segfault in an application that uses libarchive to create ZIP archives (CVE-2013-0211).

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66157

File Name: mandriva_MDVSA-2013-147.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Family: Mandriva Local Security Checks

Published: 4/20/2013

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:mandriva:business_server:1, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:bsdtar, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64archive12, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:bsdcpio, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64archive-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/19/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0211

BID: 58926

MDVSA: 2013:147

MGASA: 2013-0119

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