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Fedora 21: 2015-0264 Critical: gcab Directory Traversal Threat

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Calendar Grey May 30, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
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Security fix for CVE-2015-0552

Summary

gcab is a tool to manipulate Cabinet archive.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2015-0552

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora directory traversal gcab

Change Log

* Tue Jan 6 2015 Marc-André Lureau - 0.4-7 - Avoid directory traversal CVE-2015-0552. rhbz#1179126

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1179126 - CVE-2015-0552 gcab: directory traversal flaw https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1179126

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update gcab' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: gcab
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 0.4
Release: 7.fc21
URL: https://download.gnome.org/sources/gcab/
Summary: Cabinet file library and tool

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security advisory critical Fedora directory traversal gcab

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