Updated cpio package fixes security vulnerability
Publication date: 19 Feb 2015Modification date: 19 Feb 2015
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 4
CVE: CVE-2014-1197
Description
In GNU Cpio 2.11, the --no-absolute-filenames option limits extracting contents of an archive to be strictly inside a current directory. However, it can be bypassed with symlinks. While extracting an archive, it will extract symlinks and then follow them if they are referenced in further entries. This can be exploited by a rogue archive to write files outside the current directory (CVE-2015-1197).
References
SRPMS
4/core
- cpio-2.11-6.3.mga4