Issued at: 2026-09-23
Updated at: 2026-09-23
Advisory content derived from Red Hat RHSA-2026:69553, © Red Hat, Inc., used under CC BY 4.0, with modifications.
Synopsis
Low: 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: heap overflow OOB read while parsing a tar archive contains a PAX extended header (CVE-2026-15028)
* libarchive: libarchive: Signed Integer Overflow in archive_write_zip_header (CVE-2026-16517)
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.