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Mageia 6: MGASA-2018-0362 Moderate: Quazip Arbitrary Write Threat

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Calendar Grey August 31, 2018
Dist Mageia Esm H88
MGASA-2018-0362 - Updated quazip packages fix security vulnerability Publication date: 31 Aug 2018 U
Updated quazip packages fix security vulnerability: A vulnerability has been found in the way developers have implemented the archive extraction of files

Summary

Updated quazip packages fix security vulnerability:
A vulnerability has been found in the way developers have implemented the archive extraction of files. An arbitrary file write vulnerability, that can be achieved using a specially crafted zip archive (affects other archives as well, bzip2, tar,xz, war, cpio, 7z), that holds path traversal filenames. So when the filename gets concatenated to the target extraction directory, the final path ends up outside of the target folder. Of course if an executable or a configuration file is overwritten with a file containing malicious code, the problem can turn into an arbitrary code execution issue quite easily. This affects multiple libraries that lacks of a high level APIs that provide the archive extraction functionality (CVE-2018-1002209).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23446

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/TMQZPZKZJRQ6ESHXO5LCLIBYWOJX4HAX/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1002209

Resolution

SRPMS

- 6/core/quazip-0.7.6-1.mga6

Publication date: 31 Aug 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0362.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-1002209

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