-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-16:31.libarchive Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Multiple libarchive vulnerabilities Category: core Module: portsnap Announced: 2016-10-05 Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD. Corrected: 2016-09-25 22:02:27 UTC (stable/11, 11.0-STABLE) 2016-09-27 19:36:12 UTC (releng/11.0, 11.0-RELEASE-p1) 2016-09-25 22:04:02 UTC (stable/10, 10.3-STABLE) 2016-10-10 07:18:54 UTC (releng/10.3, 10.3-RELEASE-p10) 2016-10-10 07:18:54 UTC (releng/10.2, 10.2-RELEASE-p23) 2016-10-10 07:18:54 UTC (releng/10.1, 10.1-RELEASE-p40) For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the following sections, please visit . I. Background The libarchive(3) library provides a flexible interface for reading and writing streaming archive files such as tar(1) and cpio(1), and has been the basis for the FreeBSD implementation of the tar(1) and cpio(1) utilities since FreeBSD 5.3. II. Problem Description Flaws in libarchive's handling of symlinks and hard links allow overwriting files outside the extraction directory, or permission changes to a directory outside the extraction directory. III. Impact An attacker who can control freebsd-update's or portsnap's input to tar can change file content or permisssions on files outside of the update tool's working sandbox. IV. Workaround No workaround is available. V. Solution Upgrade your vulnerable system to a supported FreeBSD stable or release / security branch (releng) dated after the correction date. No reboot is needed. Perform one of the following: 1) To update your vulnerable system via a binary patch: Systems running a RELEASE version of FreeBSD on the i386 or amd64 platforms can be updated via the freebsd-update(8) utility. This advisory is released concurrently with FreeBSD-SA-16:29.bspatch which contains special instructions for using freebsd-update. Following the instructions in that advisory will safely apply updates for FreeBSD-SA-16:29.bspatch, FreeBSD-SA-16:30.portsnap, and FreeBSD-SA-16:31.libarchive. 2) To update your vulnerable system via a source code patch: The following patches have been verified to apply to the applicable FreeBSD release branches. a) Download the relevant patch from the location below, and verify the detached PGP signature using your PGP utility. [FreeBSD 10.1] # fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-16:31/libarchive-10.1.patch # fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-16:31/libarchive-10.1.patch.asc # gpg --verify libarchive-10.1.patch.asc [FreeBSD 10.2] # fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-16:31/libarchive-10.2.patch # fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-16:31/libarchive-10.2.patch.asc # gpg --verify libarchive-10.2.patch.asc [FreeBSD 10.3] # fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-16:31/libarchive-10.3.patch # fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-16:31/libarchive-10.3.patch.asc # gpg --verify libarchive-10.3.patch.asc b) Apply the patch. Execute the following commands as root: # cd /usr/src # patch < /path/to/patch c) Recompile the operating system using buildworld and installworld as described in . VI. Correction details The following list contains the correction revision numbers for each affected branch. Branch/path Revision - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- stable/10/ r306322 releng/10.1/ r306941 releng/10.2/ r306941 releng/10.3/ r306941 stable/11/ r306321 releng/11.0/ r306379 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To see which files were modified by a particular revision, run the following command, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number, on a machine with Subversion installed: # svn diff -cNNNNNN --summarize svn://svn.freebsd.org/base Or visit the following URL, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number: VII. References The latest revision of this advisory is available at -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJX/AiFAAoJEO1n7NZdz2rnruoQALOIEQZB6+C2K2AssEosLgMC IMuQ2dmgA/B5VQCbhM+o/ZBUahlaoXojRVwpOFEMdOOixZthdOhv3RuuMG6HKvBM ja9+MRNHAY9wXLSkdED5kfRRvbrvLy/OW6wJ1HDiib3rlB5OGgTQmwLyBr3r9VYL IOxyHCnogGibRHj2RNnbjmeZ1snwoM3WGcmopINiHsmczr6WPO9nFBtXN4udHKjd aZJ5Qk/QKakeU3tIR9G+7tNKpUaMlxl+20PJbCuGNrwlG7cXon1CAsVSNGCk2oD/ s7gK2zmXInWDVX55fJx5iZyG+gavyOHu8Ecd47cHd57rFdX858A7giOsgeAzQ6b+ 5baWwqLcGvYT1vyJeCKs1glRC8ybMY/SCm8DSD43JrUPjXMFot9zzdZwAyb34INV T+4FrnoUtJ6l33Emnwg6qr+4PFoTULXnsrKr5KEg7Dv4+iWrLjVj3S3aCViML32F MR5bhB3Ju9AR2FKQiCuBwSnuD/NI9bE6jcv730LUuM8FIuRplx8wZaWJIxgJtF1O lev0hjAfxD65F+/cxLkGCHumRd62L1kWJfoxjUhjQ5j5dDfYcGHn5JFwtAT/nvc2 vLsSVzSrLq4nlNmIJFUik1tJ5joloETSaPXkUfIvkKYltzXHNYTzHTcyACLT+Soi b6XjoO4+rpEcoYuQ1You =y6xQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----