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CVE-2018-10860

perl-archive-zip is vulnerable to a directory traversal in Archive::Zip.

Impact

perl-archive-zip is vulnerable to a directory traversal in Archive::Zip. It was found that the Archive::Zip module did not properly sanitize paths while extracting zip files. An attacker able to provide a specially crafted archive for processing could use this flaw to write or overwrite arbitrary files in the context of the perl interpreter.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Versions 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04
DebianDebian Linux
Version 8.0
Perl-Archive-Zip ProjectPerl-Archive-Zip
All versions

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