This update for libarchive fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2018-1000877: Fixed a double free vulnerability in RAR decoder (bsc#1120653)

CVE-2018-1000878: Fixed a Use-After-Free vulnerability in RAR decoder (bsc#1120654)

CVE-2018-1000879: Fixed a NULL pointer Dereference vulnerability in ACL parser (bsc#1120656)

CVE-2018-1000880: Fixed an Improper Input Validation vulnerability in WARC parser (bsc#1120659)

CVE-2019-1000019: Fixed an Out-Of-Bounds Read vulnerability in 7zip decompression (bsc#1124341)

CVE-2019-1000020: Fixed an Infinite Loop vulnerability in ISO9660 parser (bsc#1124342)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Multiple security issues were found in libarchive, a multi-format archive and compression library: Processing malformed RAR archives could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code and malformed WARC, LHarc, ISO, Xar or CAB archives could result in denial of service.

Security fix for [CVE-2018-1000877 CVE-2018-1000878 CVE-2018-1000879 CVE-2018-1000880]

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Applied various flaws from upsteam

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

An update of the libarchive package has been released.

It was discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled certain archive files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. CVE-2018-1000880 affected only Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.10. (CVE-2018-1000877, CVE-2018-1000878, CVE-2018-1000880)

It was discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled certain archive files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-14502).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for libarchive fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

  - CVE-2018-1000877: Fixed a double free vulnerability in     RAR decoder (bsc#1120653)

  - CVE-2018-1000878: Fixed a Use-After-Free vulnerability     in RAR decoder (bsc#1120654)

  - CVE-2018-1000879: Fixed a NULL pointer Dereference     vulnerability in ACL parser (bsc#1120656)

  - CVE-2018-1000880: Fixed an Improper Input Validation     vulnerability in WARC parser (bsc#1120659)

  - CVE-2019-1000019: Fixed an Out-Of-Bounds Read     vulnerability in 7zip decompression (bsc#1124341) 

  - CVE-2019-1000020: Fixed an Infinite Loop vulnerability     in ISO9660 parser (bsc#1124342)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
123636	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : libarchive (SUSE-SU-2019:0831-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	4/2/2019	1/13/2021	high
119893	Debian DSA-4360-1 : libarchive - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	12/28/2018	3/25/2020	high
123766	Fedora 28 : libarchive (2019-c595a93536)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	4/5/2019	1/23/2020	high
126114	Photon OS 3.0: Libarchive PHSA-2019-3.0-0015	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	6/24/2019	5/19/2022	medium
121211	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : libarchive vulnerabilities (USN-3859-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	1/16/2019	10/21/2023	high
124863	Photon OS 1.0: Libarchive PHSA-2019-1.0-0227	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	5/14/2019	5/20/2022	medium
123098	Fedora 29 : libarchive (2019-0233ec0ff3)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	3/26/2019	2/3/2020	high
124051	openSUSE Security Update : libarchive (openSUSE-2019-1196)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	4/15/2019	1/19/2021	high
124557	Fedora 30 : libarchive (2019-fbe83d0e32)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	5/2/2019	1/21/2020	high

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