Category Archives: Advisories

USN-6755-1: GNU cpio vulnerabilities

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Ingo Brückl discovered that cpio contained a path traversal vulnerability.
If a user or automated system were tricked into extracting a specially
crafted cpio archive, an attacker could possibly use this issue to write
arbitrary files outside the target directory on the host, even if using the
option –no-absolute-filenames.

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USN-6756-1: less vulnerability

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It was discovered that less mishandled newline characters in file names. If
a user or automated system were tricked into opening specially crafted
files, an attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary
commands on the host.

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