USN-2549-1

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USN-2549-1

Summary: libarchive vulnerabilities

Details: It was discovered that the libarchive bsdcpio utility extracted absolute paths by default without using the --insecure flag, contrary to expectations. If a user or automated system were tricked into extracting cpio archives containing absolute paths, a remote attacker may be able to write to arbitrary files. (CVE-2015-2304) Fabian Yamaguchi discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled certain type conversions. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libarchive to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2013-0211)

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2549-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-0211, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2304