Control: severity -1 serious
Control: found -1 3.6.0-1

Hi Russ,

On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 07:24:13PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Package: libarchive13t64
> Version: 3.7.2-1.1
> Severity: important
> X-Debbugs-Cc: r...@debian.org
> 
> So far it looks like no one has been able to figure out an obvious way
> for this to be exploitable, but I wanted to make sure that you were
> aware of this upstream issue:
> 
> https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1609
> 
> The author of this commit is the same GitHub account that was used to
> create the xz backdoor. Upstream has merged a revert of this change at:
> 
> https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2101
> 
> It may be worth expediting getting this change into Debian in case the
> potential attacker knows something that we don't. However, I don't have
> any reason to currently believe that this is a security vulnerability,
> so I've kept the severity at important and not applied the security tag.

Let's be on the safe side, and at least make it RC.

Regards,
Salvatore

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