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vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-14120: unrar-free -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Sep 3, 2017
Added
Feb 25, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

unrar 0.0.1 (aka unrar-free or unrar-gpl) suffers from a directory traversal vulnerability for RAR v2 archives: pathnames of the form ../[filename] are unpacked into the upper directory.

Solution

debian-upgrade-unrar-free
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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