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libarchive: pax extension header vulnerabilities

Package(s):libarchive CVE #(s):CVE-2007-3641 CVE-2007-3644 CVE-2007-3645
Created:August 9, 2007 Updated:February 27, 2008
Description: libarchive, a library for manipulating different streaming archive formats, has a number of pax extension header vulnerabilities. These may be used to cause a denial of service or for the execution of arbitrary code.
Alerts:
SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:015 2007-08-03
Debian DSA-1455-1 2008-01-08
Gentoo 200708-03 2007-08-08
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