Secunia Security Advisory – Debian has issued an update for libarchive. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise an application using the library.
You can download this advisory from the following link: https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/62456/sa28377.txt
Source: https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/62456/Secunia-Security-Advisory-28377.html