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High ALAS2-2020-1391 1 CVE

Important: libarchive security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Feb 5, 2020 · Updated Feb 8, 2020

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-18408: archive_read_format_rar_read_data in archive_read_support_format_rar.c in libarchive before 3.4.0 has a use-after-free in a certain ARCHIVE_FAILED situation, related to Ppmd7_DecodeSymbol. 1769979: CVE-2019-18408 libarchive: use-after-free in archive_read_format_rar_read_data when there is an error in the decompression of an archive entry

Fixed packages 5

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 bsdcpio 0:3.1.2-14.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 bsdtar 0:3.1.2-14.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 libarchive 0:3.1.2-14.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 libarchive-debuginfo 0:3.1.2-14.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 libarchive-devel 0:3.1.2-14.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-18408.html