[linux-sparc-announce] LFSSA-2016-0366 Important: Linux for SPARC 1.0 libarchive security update

[Announcements for Linux for SPARC]

Linux for SPARC Security Advisory LFSSA-2016-0366

The following updated rpms for Linux for SPARC 1.0 have been uploaded to 
the yum.oracle.com:

sparc64:
libarchive-2.8.3-7.el6_8.sparc64.rpm
libarchive-devel-2.8.3-7.el6_8.sparc64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://yum.oracle.com/repo/linux_sparc64/latest/libarchive-2.8.3-7.el6_8.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.8.3-7]
- Fixes variation of CVE-2016-5418: Hard links could include ".." in 
their path.

[2.8.3-6]
- Fixes CVE-2016-5418: Archive Entry with type 1 (hardlink) causes file 
overwrite (#1365774)

[2.8.3-5]
- enable testsuite
- CVE batch in summer 2016