MGASA-2015-0080

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    MGASA-2015-0080

    Published: 19 Feb 2015Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-1197

    Summary: Updated cpio package fixes security vulnerability

    Details: In GNU Cpio 2.11, the --no-absolute-filenames option limits extracting contents of an archive to be strictly inside a current directory. However, it can be bypassed with symlinks. While extracting an archive, it will extract symlinks and then follow them if they are referenced in further entries. This can be exploited by a rogue archive to write files outside the current directory (CVE-2015-1197).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0080.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15308, https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774669

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: cpio

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/cpio?arch=source&distro=mageia-4

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.11-6.3.mga4

    Affected versions

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