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USN-8902-1: libarchive vulnerability

calendar_today October 8, 2026 domain ubuntu

It was discovered that libarchive had a signed integer overflow in its ZIP writer when handling encrypted entries with sizes near the maximum value. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libarchive to crash or execute arbitrary code.

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