USN-4293-1: libarchive vulnerabilities
libarchive vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 19.10
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Summary
Several security issues were fixed in libarchive.
Software Description
- libarchive – Library to read/write archive files
Details
It was discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled certain archive files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information.
(CVE-2019-19221)
It was discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled certain archive files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash resulting in a denial
of service or possibly unspecified other impact. This issue only affected Ubuntu 19.10.
(CVE-2020-9308)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 19.10
- libarchive13 – 3.4.0-1ubuntu0.1
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- libarchive13 – 3.2.2-3.1ubuntu0.6
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- libarchive13 – 3.1.2-11ubuntu0.16.04.8
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
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