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Fedora 22: p7zip Critical Update - Directory Traversal Flaw Fix

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Calendar Grey December 20, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent p7zip update for Fedora 22 resolves a significant security vulnerability associated with directory traversal, as cited in CVE-2015-1038.
Fix CVE-2015-1038 (#1179505)

Summary

p7zip is a port of 7za.exe for Unix. 7-Zip is a file archiver with a very high

compression ratio. The original version can be found at https://7-zip.org/.

Update Information:

Fix CVE-2015-1038 (#1179505)

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1179505 - CVE-2015-1038 p7zip: directory traversal vulnerability https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1179505

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update p7zip' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: p7zip
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 15.09
Release: 4.fc22
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Summary: Very high compression ratio file archiver

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