[El-errata] ELSA-2016-1844 Important: Oracle Linux 7 libarchive security update

Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Mon Sep 12 11:34:18 PDT 2016


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2016-1844

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-1844.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 7 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
bsdcpio-3.1.2-10.el7_2.x86_64.rpm
bsdtar-3.1.2-10.el7_2.x86_64.rpm
libarchive-3.1.2-10.el7_2.i686.rpm
libarchive-3.1.2-10.el7_2.x86_64.rpm
libarchive-devel-3.1.2-10.el7_2.i686.rpm
libarchive-devel-3.1.2-10.el7_2.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates/libarchive-3.1.2-10.el7_2.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[3.1.2-10]
- Fixes variation of CVE-2016-5418: Hard links could include ".." in 
their path.

[3.1.2-9]
- Fixes CVE-2016-5418: Archive Entry with type 1 (hardlink) causes file 
overwrite (#1365777)

[3.1.2-8]
- a bunch of security fixes (rhbz#1353065)





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