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USN-2549-1: libarchive vulnerabilities

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USN-2549-1: libarchive vulnerabilities

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/15/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/26/2015
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in bsdcpio in libarchive 3.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a full pathname in an archive.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-bsdcpio
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libarchive12
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libarchive13

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