RLSA-2026:8492

Synopsis

Important: 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: libarchive: Information disclosure via heap out-of-bounds read in RAR archive processing (CVE-2026-4424)

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 10 aarch64 Rocky Linux 10 ppc64le Rocky Linux 10 s390x Rocky Linux 10 x86_64

Fixes

2449006

CVEs

CVE-2026-4424

Affected packages

Rocky Linux 10 x86_64 - BaseOS

libarchive-debuginfo-0:3.7.7-8.el10_1.x86_64.rpm libarchive-0:3.7.7-8.el10_1.src.rpm libarchive-0:3.7.7-8.el10_1.x86_64.rpm libarchive-debugsource-0:3.7.7-8.el10_1.x86_64.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 x86_64 - AppStream

libarchive-devel-0:3.7.7-8.el10_1.x86_64.rpm bsdtar-0:3.7.7-8.el10_1.x86_64.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-0:3.7.7-8.el10_1.x86_64.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 s390x - BaseOS

libarchive-debugsource-0:3.7.7-8.el10_1.s390x.rpm libarchive-0:3.7.7-8.el10_1.src.rpm libarchive-debuginfo-0:3.7.7-8.el10_1.s390x.rpm libarchive-0:3.7.7-8.el10_1.s390x.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 aarch64 - BaseOS

libarchive-0:3.7.7-8.el10_1.aarch64.rpm libarchive-debugsource-0:3.7.7-8.el10_1.aarch64.rpm libarchive-0:3.7.7-8.el10_1.src.rpm libarchive-debuginfo-0:3.7.7-8.el10_1.aarch64.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 aarch64 - AppStream

bsdtar-0:3.7.7-8.el10_1.aarch64.rpm libarchive-devel-0:3.7.7-8.el10_1.aarch64.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-0:3.7.7-8.el10_1.aarch64.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 ppc64le - BaseOS

libarchive-0:3.7.7-8.el10_1.src.rpm libarchive-debuginfo-0:3.7.7-8.el10_1.ppc64le.rpm libarchive-debugsource-0:3.7.7-8.el10_1.ppc64le.rpm libarchive-0:3.7.7-8.el10_1.ppc64le.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 ppc64le - AppStream

bsdtar-0:3.7.7-8.el10_1.ppc64le.rpm libarchive-devel-0:3.7.7-8.el10_1.ppc64le.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-0:3.7.7-8.el10_1.ppc64le.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 s390x - AppStream

bsdtar-0:3.7.7-8.el10_1.s390x.rpm libarchive-devel-0:3.7.7-8.el10_1.s390x.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-0:3.7.7-8.el10_1.s390x.rpm