Opened 5 years ago

Closed 5 years ago

#16069 closed enhancement (fixed)

libarchive-3.6.0

Reported by: Bruce Dubbs Owned by: Bruce Dubbs
Priority: normal Milestone: 11.1
Component: BOOK Version: git
Severity: medium Keywords:
Cc:

Description (last modified by Bruce Dubbs)

New point version.

Now version 3.6.0.

Change History (4)

comment:1 by Bruce Dubbs, 5 years ago

Owner: changed from blfs-book to Bruce Dubbs
Status: new → assigned

comment:2 by Bruce Dubbs, 5 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
Summary: libarchive-3.5.3 → libarchive-3.6.0

Libarchive 3.6.0 is a feature and bugfix release.

New features:

  • tar: new option "--no-read-sparse"
  • tar: threads support for zstd
  • RAR reader: filter support
  • RAR5 reader: self-extracting archive support
  • ZIP reader: zstd decompression support

Other notable bugfixes and improvements:

  • tar: respect "--ignore-zeros" in c, r and u modes
  • reduced size of application binaries
  • internal code optimizations

comment:3 by Bruce Dubbs, 5 years ago

Libarchive 3.5.3 is a security release

Security Fixes:

  • extended fix for following symlinks when processing the fixup list CVE-2021-31566)
  • fix invalid memory access and out of bounds read in RAR5 reader CVE-2021-36976)

comment:4 by Bruce Dubbs, 5 years ago

Resolution: → fixed
Status: assigned → closed

Fixed at commit ac451b94f86acf6a167e94e25ce9b040fda9b4ee 

Package updates.
    Update to pango-1.50.4.
    Update to nano-6.1.
    Update to gjs-1.70.1.
    Update to node.js-16.14.0.
    Update to libarchive-3.6.0.
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