Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.10.2016.0318
Category:	Mageia Linux Local Security Checks
Title:	Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2016-0318)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'libarchive' package(s) announced via the MGASA-2016-0318 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'libarchive' package(s) announced via the MGASA-2016-0318 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: The updated packages fix several security vulnerabilities: A flaw was found in the way libarchive handled hardlink archive entries of non-zero size. Combined with flaws in libarchive's file system sandboxing, this issue could cause an application using libarchive to overwrite arbitrary files with arbitrary data from the archive. (CVE-2016-5418, issues #745 and #746) Very long pathnames evade symlink checks (issue#744) size_t underflow leading to out of bounds heap read in process_extra() / archive_read_support_format_zip.c (issue#770) stack-based buffer overflow in bsdtar_expand_char (util.c) (issue#767) libarchive can compress, but cannot decompress zip some files (issue#748) hang in tar parser (issue#731) Out of bounds read in mtree parser (issue#747) heap-based buffer overflow in read_Header (archive_read_support_format_7zip.c) (issue#761) Affected Software/OS: 'libarchive' package(s) on Mageia 5. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 5.0 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-5418 BugTraq ID: 93165 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93165 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-03 https://gist.github.com/anonymous/e48209b03f1dd9625a992717e7b89c4f http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/09/2 RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2016:1844 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1844.html RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2016:1850 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1850.html RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2016:1852 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1852 RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2016:1853 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1853
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