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Debian DSA-5124-1 Critical: Vulnerability in bzip2 Unpacking Process

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Calendar Grey April 18, 2022
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Important security notice DSA-5297-2 regarding p7zip, focusing on file extraction vulnerabilities in Debian, issued on May 10, 2022.
cleemy desu wayo reported that incorrect handling of filenames by xzgrep in xz-utils, the XZ-format compression utilities, can result in overwrite of arbitrary files or execution o...
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security advisory critical Debian arbitrary code execution filename handling

Summary

For the oldstable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed
in version 5.2.4-1+deb10u1.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in
version 5.2.5-2.1~deb11u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your xz-utils packages.

For the detailed security status of xz-utils please refer to its
security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/xz-utils

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: xz-utils
CVE ID: CVE-2022-1271

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