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Gentoo: 200506-03 Normal: Dzip Directory Traversal Risk

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Calendar Grey June 6, 2005
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Dzip has a vulnerability related to directory traversal; Gentoo users should consider upgrading to reduce potential threats.
Dzip is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200506-03 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Dzip: Directory traversal vulnerability Date: June 06, 2005 Bugs: #93079 ID: 200506-03

Synopsis ======= Dzip is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack.
Background ========= Dzip is a compressor and uncompressor especially made for demo recordings of id's Quake.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 games-util/dzip < 2.9-r1 >= 2.9-r1
========== Dzip is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack when extracting archives.
Impact ===== An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by creating a specially crafted archive to extract files to ar...

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