Bug 2210925

Summary:	CVE-2023-30571 libarchive: Race condition in multi-threaded use of archive_write_disk_header() on posix based systems [fedora-37]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Sandipan Roy <saroy>
Component:	libarchive	Assignee:	Matej Mužila <mmuzila>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	37	CC:	ljavorsk, mmuzila, ndevos, pkubat, praiskup
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Bug Blocks:	2210921

Description Sandipan Roy 2023-05-30 04:20:56 UTC

More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2210921

Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Comment 1 Sandipan Roy 2023-05-30 04:20:59 UTC

Use the following template to for the 'fedpkg update' request to submit an
update for this issue as it contains the top-level parent bug(s) as well as
this tracking bug.  This will ensure that all associated bugs get updated
when new packages are pushed to stable.

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# bugfix, security, enhancement, newpackage (required)
type=security

# low, medium, high, urgent (required)
severity=medium

# testing, stable
request=testing

# Bug numbers: 1234,9876
bugs=2210921,2210925

# Description of your update
notes=Security fix for [PUT CVEs HERE]

# Enable request automation based on the stable/unstable karma thresholds
autokarma=True
stable_karma=3
unstable_karma=-3

# Automatically close bugs when this marked as stable
close_bugs=True

# Suggest that users restart after update
suggest_reboot=False

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Additionally, you may opt to use the bodhi web interface to submit updates:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/new

Comment 2 Lukas Javorsky 2023-07-25 14:23:57 UTC

We've decided to follow the upstream resolution to this CVE, which is to not fix it as it would require significant time and resources to do so.

Read more about it in the upstream issue: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/1876#issuecomment-1627767567