{"id":"MGASA-2016-0318","summary":"Updated libarchive packages fix security vulnerability","details":"The updated packages fix several security vulnerabilities:\n\nA flaw was found in the way libarchive handled hardlink archive entries\nof non-zero size. Combined with flaws in libarchive's file system\nsandboxing, this issue could cause an application using libarchive to\noverwrite arbitrary files with arbitrary data from the archive.\n(CVE-2016-5418, issues #745 and #746)\n\nVery long pathnames evade symlink checks (issue#744)\n\nsize_t underflow leading to out of bounds heap read in process_extra()\n/ archive_read_support_format_zip.c (issue#770)\n\nstack-based buffer overflow in bsdtar_expand_char (util.c) (issue#767)\n\nlibarchive can compress, but cannot decompress zip some files (issue#748)\n\nhang in tar parser (issue#731)\n\nOut of bounds read in mtree parser (issue#747)\n\nheap-based buffer overflow in read_Header (archive_read_support_format_7zip.c) (issue#761)\n","modified":"2026-04-16T01:46:36.038513552Z","published":"2016-09-25T11:41:52Z","upstream":["CVE-2016-5418"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0318.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19351"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1844.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/745"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/746"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/744"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/770"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/767"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/748"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/731"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"libarchive","ecosystem":"Mageia:5","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/libarchive?arch=source&distro=mageia-5"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.2.1-1.2.mga5"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0318.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}