libarchive: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libarchive, the worst of which allows for the remote execution of arbitrary code. libarchive 2017-01-01 2017-01-01 548110 552646 582526 586086 586182 596568 598950 remote 3.2.2 3.2.2

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

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

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted archive file possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All libarchive users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-arch/libarchive-3.2.2"
CVE-2015-2304 CVE-2015-8915 CVE-2015-8916 CVE-2015-8917 CVE-2015-8918 CVE-2015-8919 CVE-2015-8920 CVE-2015-8921 CVE-2015-8922 CVE-2015-8923 CVE-2015-8924 CVE-2015-8925 CVE-2015-8926 CVE-2015-8927 CVE-2015-8928 CVE-2015-8929 CVE-2015-8930 CVE-2015-8931 CVE-2015-8932 CVE-2015-8933 CVE-2015-8934 CVE-2016-1541 CVE-2016-4300 CVE-2016-4301 CVE-2016-4302 CVE-2016-4809 CVE-2016-5418 CVE-2016-5844 CVE-2016-6250 CVE-2016-7166 CVE-2016-8687 CVE-2016-8688 CVE-2016-8689 b-man b-man