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Debian: DSA-3562-1 Critical Tardiff Shell Injection and File Overwrite

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in tardiff, a tarball comparison tool. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: . - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3562-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso May 01, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : tardiff CVE ID : CVE-2015-0857 CVE-2015-0858 Several vulnerabilities were discovered in tardiff, a tarball comparison tool. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2015-0857 Rainer Mueller and Florian Weimer discovered that tardiff is prone to shell command injections via shell meta-characters in filenames in tar files or via shell meta-characters in the tar filename itself. CVE-2015-0858 Florian Weimer discovered that tardiff uses predictable temporary directories for unpacking tarballs. A malicious user can use this flaw to overwrite files with permissions of the user running the tardiff command line tool. For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 0.1-2+deb8u2. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 0.1-5 and partially in earlier versions. We recommend that you upgrade your tardiff packages. Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://www.debian.org/security/ Mailing list: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Enhance tardiff to remedy vulnerabilities highlighted in DSA-3562-1, particularly concerning a critical command line problem.. tardiff security update,file overwrite issue,shell injection risk. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

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