[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 5 Update: libarchive-2.8.4-6.el5

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2013-0819
2013-03-29 21:10:44
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Name        : libarchive
Product     : Fedora EPEL 5
Version     : 2.8.4
Release     : 6.el5
URL         : http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/
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:

This update fixes CVE-2013-0211 libarchive: read buffer overflow on 64-bit systems
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #902998 - CVE-2013-0211 libarchive: read buffer overflow on 64-bit systems
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902998
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs.  Use
su -c 'yum update libarchive' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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