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Red Hat 7 Critical: RHSA-2018:1837-01 Plexus Archiver Threat

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Calendar Grey June 12, 2018
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Security Alert: Critical Red Hat Updates for rh-maven33 and rh-maven35 Plexus Archiver Released.
An update for rh-maven33-plexus-archiver and rh-maven35-plexus-archiver is now available for Red Hat Software Collections

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 red hat arbitrary code execution important plugin update

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 Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source: rh-maven33-plexus-archiver-2.4.2-5.1.el6.src.rpm
noarch: rh-maven33-plexus-archiver-2.4.2-5.1.el6.noarch.rpm rh-maven33-plexus-archiver-javadoc-2.4.2-5.1.el6.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7):
Source: rh-maven33-plexus-archiver-2.4.2-5.1.el6.src.rpm
noarch: rh-maven33-plexus-archiver-2.4.2-5.1.el6.noarch.rpm rh-maven33-plexus-archiver-javadoc-2.4.2-5.1.el6.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):
Source: rh-maven33-plexus-archiver-2.4.2-5.1.el6.src.rpm
noarch: rh-maven33-plexus-archiver-2.4.2-5.1.el6.noarch.rpm rh-maven33-plexus-archiver-javadoc-2.4.2-5.1.el6.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: rh-maven35-plexus-archiver-3.4-4.1.el7.src.rpm
noarch: rh-maven35-plexus-archiver-3.4-4.1.el7.noarch.rpm rh-maven35-plexus-archiver-javadoc-3.4-4.1.el7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: rh-maven33-plexus-archiver-2.4.2-5.1.el7.src.rpm rh-maven35-plexus-archiver-3.4-4.1.el7.src.rpm
noarch: rh-maven33-plexus-archiver-2.4.2-5.1.el7.noarch.rpm rh-maven33-plexus-archiver-javadoc-2.4.2-5.1.el7.noarch.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:1837-01
Product: Red Hat Software Collections
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1837
Issue date: 2018-06-12

Topic

An update for rh-maven33-plexus-archiver and rh-maven35-plexus-archiver isnow available for Red Hat Software Collections.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 red hat arbitrary code execution important plugin update

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.4) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.5) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (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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