diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/libarchive/libarchive/0001-Add-ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NOABSOLUTEPATHS-option.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/libarchive/libarchive/0001-Add-ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NOABSOLUTEPATHS-option.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4ca779c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/libarchive/libarchive/0001-Add-ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NOABSOLUTEPATHS-option.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
+From 59357157706d47c365b2227739e17daba3607526 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Alessandro Ghedini <alessandro@ghedini.me>
+Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2015 12:07:45 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Add ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NOABSOLUTEPATHS option
+
+This fixes a directory traversal in the cpio tool.
+
+
+Upstream-Status: backport
+
+Signed-off-by: Li Zhou <li.zhou@windriver.com>
+---
+ cpio/bsdcpio.1                           |    3 ++-
+ cpio/cpio.c                              |    2 ++
+ libarchive/archive.h                     |    2 ++
+ libarchive/archive_write_disk.3          |    3 +++
+ libarchive/archive_write_disk_posix.c    |   14 +++++++++++---
+ libarchive/test/test_write_disk_secure.c |   23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
+ 6 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/cpio/bsdcpio.1 b/cpio/bsdcpio.1
+index f966aa0..e52546e 100644
+--- a/cpio/bsdcpio.1
++++ b/cpio/bsdcpio.1
+@@ -156,7 +156,8 @@ See above for description.
+ .It Fl Fl insecure
+ (i and p mode only)
+ Disable security checks during extraction or copying.
+-This allows extraction via symbolic links and path names containing
++This allows extraction via symbolic links, absolute paths,
++and path names containing
+ .Sq ..
+ in the name.
+ .It Fl J , Fl Fl xz
+diff --git a/cpio/cpio.c b/cpio/cpio.c
+index 0acde11..b267e9b 100644
+--- a/cpio/cpio.c
++++ b/cpio/cpio.c
+@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
+ 	cpio->extract_flags |= ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_NO_OVERWRITE_NEWER;
+ 	cpio->extract_flags |= ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINKS;
+ 	cpio->extract_flags |= ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT;
++	cpio->extract_flags |= ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NOABSOLUTEPATHS;
+ 	cpio->extract_flags |= ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_PERM;
+ 	cpio->extract_flags |= ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_FFLAGS;
+ 	cpio->extract_flags |= ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_ACL;
+@@ -256,6 +257,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
+ 		case OPTION_INSECURE:
+ 			cpio->extract_flags &= ~ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINKS;
+ 			cpio->extract_flags &= ~ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT;
++			cpio->extract_flags &= ~ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NOABSOLUTEPATHS;
+ 			break;
+ 		case 'L': /* GNU cpio */
+ 			cpio->option_follow_links = 1;
+diff --git a/libarchive/archive.h b/libarchive/archive.h
+index 1f0fc38..ef635ac 100644
+--- a/libarchive/archive.h
++++ b/libarchive/archive.h
+@@ -649,6 +649,8 @@ __LA_DECL int archive_read_set_passphrase_callback(struct archive *,
+ /* Default: Do not use HFS+ compression if it was not compressed. */
+ /* This has no effect except on Mac OS v10.6 or later. */
+ #define	ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_HFS_COMPRESSION_FORCED	(0x8000)
++/* Default: Do not reject entries with absolute paths */
++#define ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NOABSOLUTEPATHS (0x10000)
+ 
+ __LA_DECL int archive_read_extract(struct archive *, struct archive_entry *,
+ 		     int flags);
+diff --git a/libarchive/archive_write_disk.3 b/libarchive/archive_write_disk.3
+index fa925cc..a2e7afa 100644
+--- a/libarchive/archive_write_disk.3
++++ b/libarchive/archive_write_disk.3
+@@ -177,6 +177,9 @@ The default is to not refuse such paths.
+ Note that paths ending in
+ .Pa ..
+ always cause an error, regardless of this flag.
++.It Cm ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NOABSOLUTEPATHS
++Refuse to extract an absolute path.
++The default is to not refuse such paths.
+ .It Cm ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SPARSE
+ Scan data for blocks of NUL bytes and try to recreate them with holes.
+ This results in sparse files, independent of whether the archive format
+diff --git a/libarchive/archive_write_disk_posix.c b/libarchive/archive_write_disk_posix.c
+index ab3bdac..c1290eb 100644
+--- a/libarchive/archive_write_disk_posix.c
++++ b/libarchive/archive_write_disk_posix.c
+@@ -2509,8 +2509,9 @@ cleanup_pathname_win(struct archive_write_disk *a)
+ /*
+  * Canonicalize the pathname.  In particular, this strips duplicate
+  * '/' characters, '.' elements, and trailing '/'.  It also raises an
+- * error for an empty path, a trailing '..' or (if _SECURE_NODOTDOT is
+- * set) any '..' in the path.
++ * error for an empty path, a trailing '..', (if _SECURE_NODOTDOT is
++ * set) any '..' in the path or (if ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NOABSOLUTEPATHS
++ * is set) if the path is absolute.
+  */
+ static int
+ cleanup_pathname(struct archive_write_disk *a)
+@@ -2529,8 +2530,15 @@ cleanup_pathname(struct archive_write_disk *a)
+ 	cleanup_pathname_win(a);
+ #endif
+ 	/* Skip leading '/'. */
+-	if (*src == '/')
++	if (*src == '/') {
++		if (a->flags & ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NOABSOLUTEPATHS) {
++			archive_set_error(&a->archive, ARCHIVE_ERRNO_MISC,
++			                  "Path is absolute");
++			return (ARCHIVE_FAILED);
++		}
++
+ 		separator = *src++;
++	}
+ 
+ 	/* Scan the pathname one element at a time. */
+ 	for (;;) {
+diff --git a/libarchive/test/test_write_disk_secure.c b/libarchive/test/test_write_disk_secure.c
+index 31c5bfd..2c94206 100644
+--- a/libarchive/test/test_write_disk_secure.c
++++ b/libarchive/test/test_write_disk_secure.c
+@@ -178,6 +178,29 @@ DEFINE_TEST(test_write_disk_secure)
+ 	assert(S_ISDIR(st.st_mode));
+ 	archive_entry_free(ae);
+ 
++	/*
++	 * Without security checks, we should be able to
++	 * extract an absolute path.
++	 */
++	assert((ae = archive_entry_new()) != NULL);
++	archive_entry_copy_pathname(ae, "/tmp/libarchive_test-test_write_disk_secure-absolute_path.tmp");
++	archive_entry_set_mode(ae, S_IFREG | 0777);
++	assert(0 == archive_write_header(a, ae));
++	assert(0 == archive_write_finish_entry(a));
++	assertFileExists("/tmp/libarchive_test-test_write_disk_secure-absolute_path.tmp");
++	assert(0 == unlink("/tmp/libarchive_test-test_write_disk_secure-absolute_path.tmp"));
++
++	/* But with security checks enabled, this should fail. */
++	assert(archive_entry_clear(ae) != NULL);
++	archive_entry_copy_pathname(ae, "/tmp/libarchive_test-test_write_disk_secure-absolute_path.tmp");
++	archive_entry_set_mode(ae, S_IFREG | 0777);
++	archive_write_disk_set_options(a, ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NOABSOLUTEPATHS);
++	failure("Extracting an absolute path should fail here.");
++	assertEqualInt(ARCHIVE_FAILED, archive_write_header(a, ae));
++	archive_entry_free(ae);
++	assert(0 == archive_write_finish_entry(a));
++	assertFileNotExists("/tmp/libarchive_test-test_write_disk_secure-absolute_path.tmp");
++
+ 	assertEqualInt(ARCHIVE_OK, archive_write_free(a));
+ 
+ 	/* Test the entries on disk. */
+-- 
+1.7.9.5
+
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/libarchive/libarchive/libarchive-CVE-2013-0211.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/libarchive/libarchive/libarchive-CVE-2013-0211.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..126f80e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/libarchive/libarchive/libarchive-CVE-2013-0211.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+From 2f55d6bd308ea61975558c2469ae349dba297e89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>
+Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 14:35:59 +0800
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix CVE-2013-0211
+
+This patch comes from:https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/22531545514043e04633e1c015c7540b9de9dbe4
+
+Upstream-Status: Backport
+
+Signed-off-by: Baogen shang <baogen.shang@windriver.com>
+
+Update the patch because of uprev on 20140222
+
+Signed-off-by: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>
+---
+ libarchive/archive_write.c | 4 ++++
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/libarchive/archive_write.c b/libarchive/archive_write.c
+index a3d1a33..a323588 100644
+--- a/libarchive/archive_write.c
++++ b/libarchive/archive_write.c
+@@ -671,8 +671,12 @@ static ssize_t
+ _archive_write_data(struct archive *_a, const void *buff, size_t s)
+ {
+ 	struct archive_write *a = (struct archive_write *)_a;
++	const size_t max_write = INT_MAX;
+ 	archive_check_magic(&a->archive, ARCHIVE_WRITE_MAGIC,
+ 	    ARCHIVE_STATE_DATA, "archive_write_data");
++	/* In particular, this catches attempts to pass negative values. */
++	if (s > max_write)
++		s = max_write;
+ 	archive_clear_error(&a->archive);
+ 	return ((a->format_write_data)(a, buff, s));
+ }
+-- 
+1.8.2.1
+
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/libarchive/libarchive/mkdir.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/libarchive/libarchive/mkdir.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..509a295
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/libarchive/libarchive/mkdir.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+Add missing mkdir calls so that out-of-tree builds work.
+
+Upstream-Status: Submitted (https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/534)
+Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
+
+diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
+index 3fa2d22..5ecca52 100644
+--- a/Makefile.am
++++ b/Makefile.am
+@@ -508,6 +508,7 @@ libarchive_test_LDADD= $(LTLIBICONV)
+ # Building it automatically provides a sanity-check on libarchive_test_SOURCES
+ # above.
+ libarchive/test/list.h: Makefile
++	$(MKDIR_P) libarchive/test
+ 	cat $(top_srcdir)/libarchive/test/test_*.c | grep DEFINE_TEST > libarchive/test/list.h
+ 
+ libarchive_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT= LIBARCHIVE_TEST_FILES=`cd $(top_srcdir);/bin/pwd`/libarchive/test LRZIP=NOCONFIG
+@@ -835,6 +836,7 @@ bsdtar_test_CPPFLAGS=\
+ 	$(PLATFORMCPPFLAGS)
+ 
+ tar/test/list.h: Makefile
++	$(MKDIR_P) tar/test
+ 	cat $(top_srcdir)/tar/test/test_*.c | grep DEFINE_TEST > tar/test/list.h
+ 
+ if BUILD_BSDTAR
+@@ -975,6 +977,7 @@ bsdcpio_test_CPPFLAGS= \
+ bsdcpio_test_LDADD=libarchive_fe.la
+ 
+ cpio/test/list.h: Makefile
++	$(MKDIR_P) cpio/test
+ 	cat $(top_srcdir)/cpio/test/test_*.c | grep DEFINE_TEST > cpio/test/list.h
+ 
+ if BUILD_BSDCPIO
+diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
+index 38bd299..7bdb00c 100644
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
+ AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL
+ AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
+ AC_CHECK_TOOL([STRIP],[strip])
++AC_PROG_MKDIR_P
+ 
+ #
+ # Options for building bsdtar.
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/libarchive/libarchive/pkgconfig.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/libarchive/libarchive/pkgconfig.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..346af91
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/libarchive/libarchive/pkgconfig.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+Use pkg-config for the libxml2 dependency, not the -config script.
+
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+
+RP 2014/5/22
+
+Index: libarchive-3.1.2/configure.ac
+===================================================================
+--- libarchive-3.1.2.orig/configure.ac	2013-02-09 17:23:03.000000000 +0000
++++ libarchive-3.1.2/configure.ac	2014-05-13 15:26:45.446499108 +0000
+@@ -329,10 +329,10 @@
+   AS_HELP_STRING([--without-expat], [Don't build support for xar through expat]))
+ 
+ if test "x$with_xml2" != "xno"; then
+-  AC_PATH_PROG([XML2_CONFIG], [xml2-config],, [${PATH}])
+-  if test "x$XML2_CONFIG" != "x"; then
+-    CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS} `${XML2_CONFIG} --cflags`"
+-    LIBS="${LIBS} `${XML2_CONFIG} --libs`"
++  PKG_CHECK_MODULES(PKG_XML2, [libxml-2.0],,)
++  if test "x$PKG_XML2_CFLAGS" != "x"; then
++    CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS} ${PKG_XML2_CFLAGS}"
++    LIBS="${LIBS} ${PKG_XML2_LIBS}"
+     AC_CHECK_LIB(xml2,xmlInitParser,[true],AC_MSG_FAILURE(Missing xml2 library))
+   else
+     AC_CHECK_LIB(xml2,xmlInitParser)
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/libarchive/libarchive_3.1.2.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/libarchive/libarchive_3.1.2.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aaa3255
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/libarchive/libarchive_3.1.2.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+SUMMARY = "Support for reading various archive formats"
+DESCRIPTION = "C library and command-line tools for reading and writing tar, cpio, zip, ISO, and other archive formats"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.libarchive.org/"
+SECTION = "devel"
+LICENSE = "BSD"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b4e3ffd607d6686c6cb2f63394370841"
+
+DEPENDS = "e2fsprogs-native"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG ?= "libxml2 zlib bz2"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG_append_class-target = "\
+	${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'acl', 'acl', '', d)} \
+	${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'xattr', 'xattr', '', d)} \
+	${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'largefile', 'largefile', '', d)} \
+"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG_append_class-nativesdk = " largefile"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG[acl] = "--enable-acl,--disable-acl,acl,"
+PACKAGECONFIG[xattr] = "--enable-xattr,--disable-xattr,attr,"
+PACKAGECONFIG[largefile] = "--enable-largefile,--disable-largefile,,"
+PACKAGECONFIG[zlib] = "--with-zlib,--without-zlib,zlib,"
+PACKAGECONFIG[bz2] = "--with-bz2lib,--without-bz2lib,bzip2,"
+PACKAGECONFIG[xz] = "--with-lzmadec --with-lzma,--without-lzmadec --without-lzma,xz,"
+PACKAGECONFIG[openssl] = "--with-openssl,--without-openssl,openssl,"
+PACKAGECONFIG[libxml2] = "--with-xml2,--without-xml2,libxml2,"
+PACKAGECONFIG[expat] = "--with-expat,--without-expat,expat,"
+PACKAGECONFIG[lzo] = "--with-lzo2,--without-lzo2,lzo,"
+PACKAGECONFIG[nettle] = "--with-nettle,--without-nettle,nettle,"
+
+SRC_URI = "http://libarchive.org/downloads/libarchive-${PV}.tar.gz \
+           file://libarchive-CVE-2013-0211.patch \
+           file://pkgconfig.patch \
+           file://0001-Add-ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NOABSOLUTEPATHS-option.patch \
+           file://mkdir.patch \
+           "
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "efad5a503f66329bb9d2f4308b5de98a"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "eb87eacd8fe49e8d90c8fdc189813023ccc319c5e752b01fb6ad0cc7b2c53d5e"
+
+inherit autotools lib_package pkgconfig
+
+CPPFLAGS += "-I${WORKDIR}/extra-includes"
+
+do_configure[cleandirs] += "${WORKDIR}/extra-includes"
+do_configure_prepend() {
+	# We just need the headers for some type constants, so no need to
+	# build all of e2fsprogs for the target
+	cp -R ${STAGING_INCDIR_NATIVE}/ext2fs ${WORKDIR}/extra-includes/
+}
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"