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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: RHSA-2018-1836-01 Critical Plexus-Archiver Exec

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Calendar Grey June 12, 2018
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A significant enhancement for plexus-archiver addresses potential arbitrary file write and execution vulnerabilities in RHEL 7.
An update for plexus-archiver is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The Plexus project provides a full software stack for creating and executing software projects. Based on the Plexus container, the applications can utilise component-oriented programming to build modular, reusable components that can easily be assembled and reused. The plexus-archiver component provides functions to create and extract archives.
Security Fix(es):
* plexus-archiver: arbitrary file write vulnerability / arbitrary code execution using a specially crafted zip file (CVE-2018-1002200)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Red Hat would like to thank Danny Grander (Snyk) for reporting this issue.

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Topics Covered

security advisory arbitrary code execution red hat enterprise important advisory plexus-archiver

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1002200 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important https://security.snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
Source: plexus-archiver-2.4.2-5.el7_5.src.rpm
noarch: plexus-archiver-2.4.2-5.el7_5.noarch.rpm plexus-archiver-javadoc-2.4.2-5.el7_5.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
Source: plexus-archiver-2.4.2-5.el7_5.src.rpm
noarch: plexus-archiver-2.4.2-5.el7_5.noarch.rpm plexus-archiver-javadoc-2.4.2-5.el7_5.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7):
Source: plexus-archiver-2.4.2-5.el7_5.src.rpm
noarch: plexus-archiver-2.4.2-5.el7_5.noarch.rpm plexus-archiver-javadoc-2.4.2-5.el7_5.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server Optional (v. 7):
Source: plexus-archiver-2.4.2-5.el7_5.src.rpm
noarch: plexus-archiver-2.4.2-5.el7_5.noarch.rpm plexus-archiver-javadoc-2.4.2-5.el7_5.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7):
Source: plexus-archiver-2.4.2-5.el7_5.src.rpm
noarch: plexus-archiver-2.4.2-5.el7_5.noarch.rpm plexus-archiver-javadoc-2.4.2-5.el7_5.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:1836-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1836
Issue date: 2018-06-12

Topic

An update for plexus-archiver is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory arbitrary code execution red hat enterprise important advisory plexus-archiver

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server Optional (v. 7) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1584392 - CVE-2018-1002200 plexus-archiver: arbitrary file write vulnerability / arbitrary code execution using a specially crafted zip file

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