Important changes (relevant to FreeBSD):
#1840 year 2038 fix for pax archives on platforms with 64-bit time_t
#1873 bsdunzip ported to libarchive from FreeBSD
#1894 read support for zstd compression in 7zip archives
#1918 ARM64 filter support in 7zip archives
Obtained from: libarchive
Libarchive commit: ee45796171324519f0c0bfd012018dd099296336
Libarchive tag: v3.7.0
Important changes (relevant to FreeBSD):
#1814 Do not account for NULL terminator when comparing with "TRAILER!!!"
#1818 Add ability to produce multi-frame zstd archives
#1860 Make single bit bitfields unsigned to avoid clang 16 warning
#1869 Fix FreeBSD builds with WARNS=6
Obtained from: libarchive
Libarchive commit: 1f3c62ebf4d492ac21d3099b3b064993100dd997
Libarchive 3.6.0
New features:
PR #1614: tar: new option "--no-read-sparse"
PR #1503: RAR reader: filter support
PR #1585: RAR5 reader: self-extracting archive support
New features (not used in FreeBSD base):
PR #1567: tar: threads support for zstd (#1567)
PR #1518: ZIP reader: zstd decompression support
Security Fixes:
PR #1491, #1492, #1493, CVE-2021-36976:
fix invalid memory access and out of bounds read in RAR5 reader
PR #1566, #1618, CVE-2021-31566:
extended fix for following symlinks when processing the fixup list
Other notable bugfixes and improvements:
PR #1620: tar: respect "--ignore-zeros" in c, r and u modes
PR #1625: reduced size of application binaries
Obtained from: libarchive
Libarchive commit: 9147def1da7ad1bdd47b3559eb1bfeeb0e0f374b
Libarchive tag: v3.6.0
Libarchive 3.5.2
New features:
PR #1502: Support for PWB and v7 binary cpio formats
PR #1509: Support of deflate algorithm in symbolic link decompression
for ZIP archives
Important bugfixes:
IS #1044: fix extraction of hardlinks to symlinks
PR #1480: Fix truncation of size values during 7zip archive
extraction on 32bit architectures
PR #1504: fix rar header skiming
PR #1514: ZIP excessive disk read - fix location of central directory
PR #1520: fix double-free in CAB reader
PR #1521: Fixed leak of rar before ending with error
PR #1530: Handle short writes from archive_write_callback
PR #1532: 7zip: Use compression settings from file also for file header
IS #1566: do not follow symlinks when processing the fixup list
Obtained from: libarchive
Libarchive commit: 1b2c437b99b361c7692538fa373e99955e9b93ae
Libarchive tag: v3.5.2
Vendor changes:
Issue #1461: Unbreak build without lzma
Issue #1462: warc reader: Fix build with gcc11
Issue #1463: Fix code compatibility in test_archive_read_support.c
Issue #1464: Use built-in strnlen on platforms where not available
Issue #1465: warc reader: fix undefined behaviour in deconst() function
Libarchive 3.4.3
Relevant vendor changes:
PR #1352: support negative zstd compression levels
PR #1359: improve zstd version checking
PR #1348: support RHT.security.selinux from GNU tar
PR #1357: support for archives compressed with pzstd
PR #1367: fix issues in acl tests
PR #1372: child handling cleanup
PR #1378: fix memory leak from passphrase callback
Libarchive 3.4.2
Relevant vendor changes:
PR #1289: atomic extraction support (bsdtar -x --safe-writes)
PR #1308: big endian fix for UTF16 support in LHA reader
PR #1326: reject RAR5 files that declare invalid header flags
Issue #987: fix support 7z archive entries with Delta filter
Issue #1317: fix compression output buffer handling in XAR writer
Issue #1319: fix uname or gname longer than 32 characters in pax writer
Issue #1325: fix use after free when archiving hardlinks in ISO9660 or XAR
Use localtime_r() and gmtime_r() instead of localtime() and gmtime()
Relevant vendor changes:
Issue #1237: Fix integer overflow in archive_read_support_filter_lz4.c
PR #1249: Correct some typographical and grammatical errors.
PR #1250: Minor corrections to the formatting of manual pages
Relevant vendor changes:
Issue #795: XAR - do not try to add xattrs without an allocated name
PR #812: non-recursive option for extract and list
PR #958: support reading metadata from compressed files
PR #999: add --exclude-vcs option to bsdtar
Issue #1062: treat empty archives with a GNU volume header as valid
PR #1074: Handle ZIP files with trailing 0s in the extra fields
(Android APK archives)
PR #1109: Ignore padding in Zip extra field data (Android APK archives)
PR #1167: fix problems related to unreadable directories
Issue #1168: fix handling of strtol() and strtoul()
PR #1172: RAR5 - fix invalid window buffer read in E8E9 filter
PR #1174: ZIP reader - fix of MSZIP signature parsing
PR #1175: gzip filter - fix reading files larger than 4GB from memory
PR #1177: gzip filter - fix memory leak with repeated header reads
PR #1180: ZIP reader - add support for Info-ZIP Unicode Path Extra Field
PR #1181: RAR5 - fix merge_block() recursion
(OSS-Fuzz 12999, 13029, 13144, 13478, 13490)
PR #1183: fix memory leak when decompressing ZIP files with LZMA
PR #1184: fix RAR5 OSS-Fuzz issues 12466, 14490, 14491, 12817
OSS-Fuzz 12466: RAR5 - fix buffer overflow when parsing huffman tables
OSS-Fuzz 14490, 14491: RAR5 - fix bad shift-left operations
OSS-Fuzz 12817: RAR5 - handle a case with truncated huffman tables
PR #1186: RAR5 - fix invalid type used for dictionary size mask
(OSS-Fuzz 14537)
PR #1187: RAR5 - fix integer overflow (OSS-Fuzz 14555)
PR #1190: RAR5 - RAR5 don't try to unpack entries marked as directories
(OSS-Fuzz 14574)
PR #1196: RAR5 - fix a potential SIGSEGV on 32-bit builds
OSS-Fuzz 2582: RAR - fix use after free if there is an invalid entry
OSS-Fuzz 14331: RAR5 - fix maximum owner name length
OSS-Fuzz 13965: RAR5 - use unsigned int for volume number + range check
Additional RAR5 reader changes:
- support symlinks, hardlinks, file owner, file group, versioned files
- change ARCHIVE_FORMAT_RAR_V5 to 0x100000
- set correct mode for readonly directories
- support readonly, hidden and system Windows file attributes
NOTE: a version bump of libarchive will happen in the following days
Relevant vendor changes:
PR #1085: Fix a null pointer dereference bug in zip writer
PR #1110: ZIP reader added support for XZ, LZMA, PPMD8 and BZIP2
decopmpression
PR #1116: Add support for 64-bit ar format
PR #1120: Fix a 7zip crash [1] and a ISO9660 infinite loop [2]
PR #1125: RAR5 reader - fix an invalid read and a memory leak
PR #1131: POSIX reader - do not fail when tree_current_lstat() fails
due to ENOENT [3]
PR #1134: Delete unnecessary null pointer checks before calls of free()
OSS-Fuzz 10843: Force intermediate to uint64_t to make UBSAN happy.
OSS-Fuzz 11011: Avoid buffer overflow in rar5 reader
PR: 233006 [3]
Security: CVE-2019-1000019 [1], CVE-2019-1000020 [2]
Relevant vendor changes:
PR #905: Support for Zstandard read and write filters
PR #922: Avoid overflow when reading corrupt cpio archive
Issue #935: heap-based buffer overflow in xml_data (CVE-2017-14166)
OSS-Fuzz 2936: Place a limit on the mtree line length
OSS-Fuzz 2394: Ensure that the ZIP AES extension header is large enough
OSS-Fuzz 573: Read off-by-one error in RAR archives (CVE-2017-14502)
Security: CVE-2017-14166, CVE-2017-14502
Important vendor bugfixes (relevant to FreeBSD):
#821: tar -P cannot extract hardlinks through symlinks
#825: Add sanity check of tar "uid, "gid" and "mtime" fields
