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Debian LTS Advisory ([SECURITY] [DLA 1006-1] libarchive security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Multiple denial of services vulnerabilities have been identified in libarchive when manipulating specially crafted archives. CVE-2016-10209 NULL pointer dereference and application crash in the archive_wstring_append_from_mbs() function. CVE-2016-10349 Heap-based buffer over-read and application crash in the archive_le32dec() function. CVE-2016-10350 Heap-based buffer over-read and application crash in the archive_read_format_cab_read_header() function.
Affected Software
Affected Software
libarchive on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 3.0.4-3+wheezy6. We recommend that you upgrade your libarchive packages.