[SECURITY] Fedora 42 Update: xz-5.8.1-2.fc42

XZ Utils are an attempt to make LZMA compression easy to use on free as in freedom operating systems. This is achieved by providing tools and libraries which are similar to use than the equivalents of the most popular existing compression algorithms. LZMA is a general purpose compression algorith...

USN-7438-1 7zip vulnerabilities

Igor Pavlov discovered that 7-Zip had several memory-related issues. An attacker could possibly use these issues to cause 7-Zip to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2023-52168, CVE-2023-52169...

[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: xz-5.2.5-9.fc36

XZ Utils are an attempt to make LZMA compression easy to use on free as in freedom operating systems. This is achieved by providing tools and libraries which are similar to use than the equivalents of the most popular existing compression algorithms. LZMA is a general purpose compression algorith...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: mingw-xz-5.2.2-3.fc24

XZ Utils are an attempt to make LZMA compression easy to use on free as in freedom operating systems. This is achieved by providing tools and librari es which are similar to use than the equivalents of the most popular existing compression algorithms. LZMA is a general purpose compression algorit...

Corruption, Code Execution Vulnerabilities Patched in Open Source Archiver 7-Zip

Several vulnerabilities were fixed this week in the file archiver 7-Zip that could have led to arbitrary code execution and file corruption. The developer behind the tool-which is open source and can be used with any compression, conversion, or encryption method-is urging users to update to the...

CVE-2007-4725

Stack consumption vulnerability in AkkyWareHOUSE 7-zip32.dll before 4.42.00.04, as derived from Igor Pavlov 7-Zip before 4.53 beta, allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename in an archive, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow...