CVE-2015-2060

Impact

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.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151145.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151147.html
• http://www.cabextract.org.uk/
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:064
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/18/3
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/23/16
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/23/24
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151145.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151147.html
• http://www.cabextract.org.uk/
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:064
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/18/3
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/23/16
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/23/24