Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 29, 2019· Updated Aug 6, 2024

CVE-2015-2060

Description

cabextract before 1.6 does not properly check for leading slashes when extracting files, which allows remote attackers to conduct absolute directory traversal attacks via a malformed UTF-8 character that is changed to a UTF-8 encoded slash.

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Affected products

Cabextract Project/Cabextractllm-fuzzy
Range: <1.6

Patches

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References

lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151145.htmlmitrex_refsource_MISC
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151147.htmlmitrex_refsource_MISC
www.cabextract.org.ukmitrex_refsource_MISC
www.mandriva.com/security/advisoriesmitrex_refsource_MISC
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/18/3mitrex_refsource_MISC
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/23/16mitrex_refsource_MISC
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/23/24mitrex_refsource_MISC

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