MGASA-2019-0005

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    MGASA-2019-0005

    Published: 5 Jan 2019Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated plexus-archiver packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: A path traversal vulnerability has been discovered in plexus-archiver when extracting a carefully crafted zip file which holds path traversal file names. A remote attacker could use this vulnerability to write files outside the target directory and overwrite existing files with malicious code or vulnerable configurations (CVE-2018-1002200).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0005.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23174, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/I7XAAUCTHL2PDJHW5Q2IYATOAXX4AFFU/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: plexus-archiver

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/plexus-archiver?arch=source&distro=mageia-6

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.4-1.1.mga6

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High