Security
Headlines
HeadlinesLatestCVEs

Headline

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202309-14

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202309-14 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libarchive, the worst of which could result in denial of service. Versions greater than or equal to 3.7.1 are affected.

Packet Storm
#vulnerability#web#mac#linux#dos

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 202309-14


                                       https://security.gentoo.org/  

Severity: Normal
Title: libarchive: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Date: September 29, 2023
Bugs: #882521, #911486
ID: 202309-14


Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libarchive, the worst of
which could result in denial of service.

Background

libarchive is a library for manipulating different streaming archive
formats, including certain tar variants, several cpio formats, and both
BSD and GNU ar variants.

Affected packages

Package Vulnerable Unaffected


app-arch/libarchive < 3.7.1 >= 3.7.1

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libarchive. Please
review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All libarchive users should upgrade to the latest version:

emerge --sync

emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose “>=app-arch/libarchive-3.7.1”

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2022-36227
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-36227

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-14

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users’ machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
[email protected] or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License

Copyright 2023 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

Related news

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3342-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3342-01 - Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments. This advisory contains the extra low-latency container images for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13. Issues addressed include a bypass vulnerability.

RHSA-2023:3609: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.12.4 security and Bug Fix update

Updated images that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.12.4 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 from Red Hat Container Registry. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2022-3172: A security issue was discovered in kube-apiserver that allows an aggregated API server to redirect client traffic to any URL. This issue leads to the client performing unexpected actions and forwarding the client's API server credentials to third parties.

RHSA-2023:3353: Red Hat Security Advisory: Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes 2.0.9 security fixes and container updates

Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes 2.0.9 General Availability release images, which fix security issues and update container images. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2023-32313: A flaw was found in the vm2. After making a vm, the inspect method is read-write for console.log, which allows an attacker to edit options for console.log. This issue impacts the integrity by changing the log subsystem. * CVE-2023-32314: A flaw was found in the vm2 sandbox. When a host o...

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3325-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3325-01 - Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes 2.1.7 images Multicluster engine for Kubernetes provides the foundational components that are necessary for the centralized management of multiple Kubernetes-based clusters across data centers, public clouds, and private clouds. You can use the engine to create new Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform clusters or to bring existing Kubernetes-based clusters under management by importing them. After the clusters are managed, you can use the APIs that are provided by the engine to distribute configuration based on placement policy.

RHSA-2023:3325: Red Hat Security Advisory: Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes 2.1.7 security fixes and container updates

Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes 2.1.7 General Availability release images, which address security issues and update container images. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2023-32313: A flaw was found in the vm2. After making a vm, the inspect method is read-write for console.log, which allows an attacker to edit options for console.log. This issue impacts the integrity by changing the log subsystem. * CVE-2023-32314: A flaw was found in the vm2 sandbox. When a ho...

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3296-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3296-01 - Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes 2.2.4 images Multicluster engine for Kubernetes provides the foundational components that are necessary for the centralized management of multiple Kubernetes-based clusters across data centers, public clouds, and private clouds. You can use the engine to create new Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform clusters or to bring existing Kubernetes-based clusters under management by importing them. After the clusters are managed, you can use the APIs that are provided by the engine to distribute configuration based on placement policy.

RHSA-2023:3265: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.12.3 Security and Bug fix update

Updated images that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.12.3 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 from Red Hat Container Registry. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2022-23539: A flaw was found in the jsonwebtoken package. The affected versions of the `jsonwebtoken` library could be misconfigured so that legacy, insecure key types are used for signature verification. For example, DSA keys could be used with the RS256 algorithm. *...

RHSA-2023:3018: Red Hat Security Advisory: libarchive security update

An update for libarchive is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2022-36227: A flaw was found in libarchive. A missing check of the return value of the calloc function can cause a NULL pointer dereference in an out-of-memory condition or when a memory allocation limit is reached, resulting in the program linked with libarchive to crash.

RHSA-2023:2532: Red Hat Security Advisory: libarchive security update

An update for libarchive is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2022-36227: A flaw was found in libarchive. A missing check of the return value of the calloc function can cause a NULL pointer dereference in an out-of-memory condition or when a memory allocation limit is reached, resulting in the program linked with libarchive to crash.

CVE-2022-36227: There is a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability · Issue #1754 · libarchive/libarchive

In libarchive 3.6.1, the software does not check for an error after calling calloc function that can return with a NULL pointer if the function fails, which leads to a resultant NULL pointer dereference or, in some cases, even arbitrary code execution.

Packet Storm: Latest News

TOR Virtual Network Tunneling Tool 0.4.8.13