[Bug 1867390] [NEW] Update libarchive to 3.4.2

[Amr Ibrahim]

Public bug reported:

Please update libarchive to 3.4.2.

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/releases

Libarchive 3.4.2 is a feature and security release.

New features:

support for atomic file extraction (bsdtar -x --safe-writes) (#1289)
support for mbed TLS (PolarSSL) (#1301)

Important bugfixes:

security fixes in RAR5 reader (#1280 #1326)
compression buffer fix in XAR writer (#1317)
fix uname and gname longer than 32 characters in PAX writer (#1319)
fix segfault when archiving hard links in ISO9660 and XAR writers (#1325)
fix support for extracting 7z archive entries with Delta filter (#987)


Libarchive 3.4.1 is a feature and security release.

New features:

Unicode filename support for reading lha/lzh archives
New pax write option "xattrhdr"

Important bugfixes:

security fixes in wide string processing (#1276 #1298)
security fixes in RAR5 reader (#1212 #1217 #1296)
security fixes and optimizations to write filter logic (#351)
security fix related to use of readlink(2) (1dae5a5)
sparse file handling fixes (#1218 #1260)

** Affects: libarchive (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: focal upgrade-software-version

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Title:
  Update libarchive to 3.4.2

Status in libarchive package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Please update libarchive to 3.4.2.

  https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/releases

  Libarchive 3.4.2 is a feature and security release.

  New features:

  support for atomic file extraction (bsdtar -x --safe-writes) (#1289)
  support for mbed TLS (PolarSSL) (#1301)

  Important bugfixes:

  security fixes in RAR5 reader (#1280 #1326)
  compression buffer fix in XAR writer (#1317)
  fix uname and gname longer than 32 characters in PAX writer (#1319)
  fix segfault when archiving hard links in ISO9660 and XAR writers (#1325)
  fix support for extracting 7z archive entries with Delta filter (#987)

  
  Libarchive 3.4.1 is a feature and security release.

  New features:

  Unicode filename support for reading lha/lzh archives
  New pax write option "xattrhdr"

  Important bugfixes:

  security fixes in wide string processing (#1276 #1298)
  security fixes in RAR5 reader (#1212 #1217 #1296)
  security fixes and optimizations to write filter logic (#351)
  security fix related to use of readlink(2) (1dae5a5)
  sparse file handling fixes (#1218 #1260)

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