[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: libarchive-3.1.2-11.fc21

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-7216
2015-04-30 05:48:12
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Name        : libarchive
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 3.1.2
Release     : 11.fc21
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:

Security fix for bug 1216891
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Apr 29 2015 Pavel Raiskup <praiskup at redhat.com> - 3.1.2-11
- fix libarchive segfault for intentionally broken cpio archives (rhbz#1216892)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1216891 - libarchive: crash via malformed cpio archive
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1216891
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