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Gentoo: 200506-16 Normal: cpio Directory Extraction Threat

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Calendar Grey June 20, 2005
Scroller Gentoo
The cpio directory traversal vulnerability is a serious threat to Gentoo systems, risking file security and system integrity by exploiting malformed archives
cpio contains a flaw which may allow a specially crafted cpio archive to extract files to an arbitrary directory.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200506-16 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: cpio: Directory traversal vulnerability Date: June 20, 2005 Bugs: #90619 ID: 200506-16

Synopsis ======= cpio contains a flaw which may allow a specially crafted cpio archive to extract files to an arbitrary directory.
Background ========= cpio is a file archival tool which can also read and write tar files.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-arch/cpio < 2.6-r3 >= 2.6-r3
========== A vulnerability has been found in cpio that can potentially allow a cpio archive to extract its files to an arbitrary directory of the creator's choice.
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