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Debian 7: DLA-1091-1 Moderate: Unrar-Free Directory Traversal Issue

debian lts
Calendar Grey September 7, 2017
Dist Debian Esm H88
Enhance unrar-free in light of identified directory traversal vulnerability that threatens security during file extraction tasks.
It was discovered that there was a directory traversal vulnerability in unrar-free, a unarchiver for .rar files, where pathnames of the form "../filename" were unpacked into the pa...
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security advisory moderate update debian directory traversal unrar-free file unpacking

Summary

For Debian 7 "Wheezy", this issue has been fixed in unrar-free version
1:0.0.1+cvs20071127-2+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your unrar-free packages.


Regards,

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Package: unrar-free
Version: 1:0.0.1+cvs20071127-2+deb7u1
CVE ID: CVE-2017-14120
Debian Bug: #874059

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security advisory moderate update debian directory traversal unrar-free file unpacking

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