Bug 2448049

Summary:	CVE-2026-4111 libarchive: Infinite Loop Denial of Service in RAR5 Decompression via archive_read_data() in libarchive [fedora-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Abhishek Raj <abhraj>
Component:	libarchive	Assignee:	Pavol Sloboda <psloboda>
Status:	ON_QA ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	rawhide	CC:	db-sig, jamartis, ljavorsk, ndevos, pkubat, praiskup
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Hardware:	Unspecified
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Whiteboard:	{"flaws": ["931e743c-12fe-416b-993e-3cbb97efd5c8"]}
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Bug Blocks:	2446453

Description Abhishek Raj 2026-03-16 15:08:23 UTC

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 Lukas Javorsky 2026-03-25 10:12:18 UTC

Fedora Rawhide and f44 are on version 3.8.6 that has this CVE fixed.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2026-03-25 10:28:31 UTC

FEDORA-2026-b42b8b1c00 (libarchive-3.8.6-1.fc44) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 44.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-b42b8b1c00

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2026-03-26 04:01:53 UTC

FEDORA-2026-b42b8b1c00 has been pushed to the Fedora 44 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-b42b8b1c00`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-b42b8b1c00

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 4 Fedora Admin user for bugzilla script actions 2026-04-01 13:11:33 UTC

This package has changed maintainer in Fedora. Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.