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Medium ALSA-2020:4443 1 CVE

Moderate: libarchive security update

Published Nov 3, 2020 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

The libarchive programming library can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including GNU tar, cpio, and ISO 9660 CD-ROM images. Libarchive is used notably in the bsdtar utility, scripting language bindings such as python-libarchive, and several popular desktop file managers.

Security Fix(es):

* libarchive: out-of-bounds read in archive_wstring_append_from_mbs in archive_string.c (CVE-2019-19221)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 libarchive-devel 3.3.2-9.el8

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2019-19221