Mageia alert MGASA-2024-0363 (libarchive)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2024-0363: Updated libarchive packages fix security vulnerability
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Wed, 13 Nov 2024 19:48:39 +0100
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MGASA-2024-0363 - Updated libarchive packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 13 Nov 2024
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2024-0363.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 9
CVE: CVE-2024-20696

Description:
A heap-based out-of-bounds write vulnerability was discovered in
libarchive, a multi-format archive and compression library, which may
result in the execution of arbitrary code if a specially crafted RAR
archive is processed. (CVE-2024-20696)

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33757
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/ms...
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-2...

SRPMS:
- 9/core/libarchive-3.6.2-5.3.mga9