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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2016-8491ec1ebd
2016-05-16 16:05:11.553720
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Name : libarchive
Product : Fedora 23
Version : 3.1.2
Release : 15.fc23
URL : http://www.libarchive.org/
Summary : A library for handling streaming archive formats
Description :
Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read several different
streaming archive formats, including most popular tar variants, several cpio
formats, and both BSD and GNU ar variants. It can also write shar archives and
read ISO9660 CDROM images and ZIP archives.

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Update Information:

fix manual pages to mention correctly spelled binary names (rhbz#1294252), fix
CVE-2016-1541, rhbz#1334213
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1294252 – Man page for bsdtar(1) claims that it is for tar(1)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1294252
[ 2 ] Bug #1334213 – CVE-2016-1541 libarchive: heap-based buffer overflow due to improper input validation [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1334213
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This update can be installed with the “yum” update program. Use
su -c ‘yum update libarchive’ at the command line.
For more information, refer to “Managing Software with yum”,
available at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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