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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2021-31566: libarchive security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Mar 28, 2022
Added
Mar 29, 2022
Modified
Apr 1, 2026

Description

An improper link resolution flaw can occur while extracting an archive leading to changing modes, times, access control lists, and flags of a file outside of the archive. An attacker may provide a malicious archive to a victim user, who would trigger this flaw when trying to extract the archive. A local attacker may use this flaw to gain more privileges in a system.

Solutions

huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-bsdtarhuawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-libarchivehuawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-libarchive-devel
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