Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: libarchive security update

An update for libarchive is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update a...

RHEL 9 : libarchive (RHSA-2026:8866)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:8866 advisory. The libarchive programming library can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including GNU tar, cpio, and ISO 9660...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: libarchive security update

An update for libarchive is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fro...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-4424

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A flaw was found in libarchive. This heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in the RAR archive processing logic due to improper validation of the LZSS...

libarchive RAR File Parsing Integer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of libarchive. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the parsing of RAR file...

ClamAV RAR Archive Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Background From http://www.clamav.net/ : "Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers attachment scanning. The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and a tool for...

CVE-2001-1271

Directory traversal vulnerability in rar 2.02 and earlier allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a .. dot dot attack on archived filenames...