Mageia alert MGASA-2015-0106 (libarchive)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2015-0106: Updated libarchive packages fix security vulnerability 
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Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:31:15 +0100
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MGASA-2015-0106 - Updated libarchive packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 12 Mar 2015
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0106.html

Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 4

Description:
Updated libarchive packages fix security vulnerability:

Alexander Cherepanov discovered that bsdcpio, an implementation of the "cpio"
program part of the libarchive project, is susceptible to a directory
traversal vulnerability via absolute paths.

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15438

- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/16/7

- https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3180


SRPMS:
- 4/core/libarchive-3.1.2-2.1.mga4