libarchive 3.3.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (xml_data heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted xar archive, related to the mishandling of empty strings in the atol8 function in archive_read_support_format_xar.c. Upstream patch: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/fa7438a0ff4033e4741c807394a9af6207940d71 References: https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/06/libarchive-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-xml_data-archive_read_support_format_xar-c/
Created libarchive tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1449531]
Waits for release: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/935