RLSA-2026:52674

Synopsis

Moderate: libarchive security update

Description

The libarchive programming library can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including GNU tar, cpio, and ISO 9660 CD-ROM images. Libarchive is used notably in the bsdtar utility, scripting language bindings such as python-libarchive, and several popular desktop file managers.

Security Fix(es):

* libarchive: Double-Free Vulnerability in RAR5 Decompression Logic via dangling filtered_buf pointer in init_unpack() (CVE-2026-14164)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Affected products

Rocky Linux 9 aarch64 Rocky Linux 9 ppc64le Rocky Linux 9 s390x Rocky Linux 9 x86_64

Fixes

2493411

CVEs

CVE-2026-14164

Affected packages

Rocky Linux 9 aarch64 - AppStream

bsdtar-0:3.5.3-11.el9_8.aarch64.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-0:3.5.3-11.el9_8.aarch64.rpm libarchive-devel-0:3.5.3-11.el9_8.aarch64.rpm

Rocky Linux 9 ppc64le - AppStream

bsdtar-0:3.5.3-11.el9_8.ppc64le.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-0:3.5.3-11.el9_8.ppc64le.rpm libarchive-devel-0:3.5.3-11.el9_8.ppc64le.rpm

Rocky Linux 9 s390x - AppStream

bsdtar-0:3.5.3-11.el9_8.s390x.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-0:3.5.3-11.el9_8.s390x.rpm libarchive-devel-0:3.5.3-11.el9_8.s390x.rpm

Rocky Linux 9 aarch64 - BaseOS

libarchive-0:3.5.3-11.el9_8.aarch64.rpm libarchive-0:3.5.3-11.el9_8.src.rpm libarchive-debuginfo-0:3.5.3-11.el9_8.aarch64.rpm libarchive-debugsource-0:3.5.3-11.el9_8.aarch64.rpm

Rocky Linux 9 ppc64le - BaseOS

libarchive-0:3.5.3-11.el9_8.ppc64le.rpm libarchive-0:3.5.3-11.el9_8.src.rpm libarchive-debuginfo-0:3.5.3-11.el9_8.ppc64le.rpm libarchive-debugsource-0:3.5.3-11.el9_8.ppc64le.rpm

Rocky Linux 9 s390x - BaseOS

libarchive-0:3.5.3-11.el9_8.s390x.rpm libarchive-0:3.5.3-11.el9_8.src.rpm libarchive-debuginfo-0:3.5.3-11.el9_8.s390x.rpm libarchive-debugsource-0:3.5.3-11.el9_8.s390x.rpm

Rocky Linux 9 x86_64 - BaseOS

libarchive-0:3.5.3-11.el9_8.src.rpm libarchive-debuginfo-0:3.5.3-11.el9_8.i686.rpm libarchive-debuginfo-0:3.5.3-11.el9_8.x86_64.rpm libarchive-debugsource-0:3.5.3-11.el9_8.i686.rpm libarchive-debugsource-0:3.5.3-11.el9_8.x86_64.rpm