MGASA-2015-0150

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    MGASA-2015-0150

    Published: 15 Apr 2015Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated arj packages fix security vulnerabilities

    Details: Updated arj package fixes security vulnerabilities: ARJ follows symlinks when unpacking stuff, even the symlinks that were created during the same unpack process, making it vulnerable to a directory traversal (CVE-2015-0556). To protect from directory traversals, ARJ strips leading slash from the path when unpacking, but this protection can be easily bypassed by adding more than one leading slash to the path (CVE-2015-0557). ARJ is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when processing a specially crafted arj file (CVE-2015-2782).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0150.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15586, https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3213

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: arj

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

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.10.22-9.mga4

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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