Debian DLA-810-1 : libarchive security update
Medium Nessus Plugin ID 96909
Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
Description
It was discovered that there was a heap buffer overflow in libarchive, a multi-format archive and compression library.
For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in libarchive version 3.0.4-3+wheezy5+deb7u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libarchive packages.
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Upgrade the affected packages.