Secunia Security Advisory - FreeBSD has issued an update for libarchive. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise an application using the library.
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TITLE:
FreeBSD update for libarchive
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26062
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26062/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
System access, DoS
WHERE:
>From remote
OPERATING SYSTEM:
FreeBSD 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/1132/
FreeBSD 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/6778/
DESCRIPTION:
FreeBSD has issued an update for libarchive. This fixes some
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause
a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise an application
using the library.
For more information:
SA26050
SOLUTION:
Update to:
2007-07-12 15:00:44 UTC (RELENG_6, 6.2-STABLE)
2007-07-12 15:01:14 UTC (RELENG_6_2, 6.2-RELEASE-p6)
2007-07-12 15:01:32 UTC (RELENG_6_1, 6.1-RELEASE-p18)
2007-07-12 15:01:42 UTC (RELENG_5, 5.5-STABLE)
2007-07-12 15:01:56 UTC (RELENG_5_5, 5.5-RELEASE-p14)
Or apply patch:
http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-07:05/libarchive.patch
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA26050:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26050/
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