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Message-ID: <20150305210001.GA13526@pisco.westfalen.local>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 22:00:01 +0100
From: Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@...til.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org
Subject: Re: CVE Request: libarchive -- directory traversal in
 bsdcpio

On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 08:01:10PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 06:19:21AM +0300, Alexander Cherepanov wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > bsdcpio tool from libarchive bundle is susceptible to a directory traversal
> > vulnerability via absolute paths.
> > 
> > Initial discussion:
> > http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/07/5
> > 
> > Upstream report:
> > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/libarchive-discuss/dN9y1VvE1Qk/Z9uerigjQn0J
> > 
> > My proposed (minimal) fix (non-Windows):
> > https://groups.google.com/group/libarchive-discuss/attach/a78932ecb50340ae/0001-Quick-n-dirty-fix-for-bsdcpio-directory-traversal-vu.patch?part=0.1
> > 
> > Discussion is ongoing.
> > 
> > Could CVE(s) please be assigned?
> 
> This seems to have fallen through the cracks, explicitly adding cve-assign
> to CC.

Now released as DSA 3180.

Cheers,
        Moritz

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