Mageia 6: MGASA-2019-0005 Critical: Plexus-Archiver Path Traversal
mageia
January 5, 2019
A path traversal vulnerability has been discovered in plexus-archiver when extracting a carefully crafted zip file which holds path traversal file names
Summary
A path traversal vulnerability has been discovered in plexus-archiver
when extracting a carefully crafted zip file which holds path traversal
file names. A remote attacker could use this vulnerability to write
files outside the target directory and overwrite existing files with
malicious code or vulnerable configurations (CVE-2018-1002200).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23174
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/I7XAAUCTHL2PDJHW5Q2IYATOAXX4AFFU/
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1002200
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 6/core/plexus-archiver-3.4-1.1.mga6
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Publication date: 05 Jan 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0005.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-1002200
Topics Covered
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