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openSUSE: 2016:0213-1 Critical: roundcubemail Path Traversal

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Calendar Grey January 24, 2016
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A security patch has been released for Roundcube in openSUSE to fix a significant path traversal vulnerability.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update to roundcubemail 1.1.4 fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2015-8770: Path traversal vulnerability allowed code execution to

remote authenticated users if they were also upload files to the same

server through some other method (boo#962067)

This update also contains all upstream fixes in 1.1.4. The package was

updated to use generic PHP requirements for use with other prefixes than

"php5-"

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical path traversal openSUSE roundcubemail

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-80=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (noarch):

roundcubemail-1.1.4-6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8770.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/962067

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:0213-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical path traversal openSUSE roundcubemail

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