DSA-3180-1 libarchive -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3180-1 libarchive -- security update

Date Reported:

05 Mar 2015

Affected Packages:

libarchive

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 778266.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-2304.

More information:

Alexander Cherepanov discovered that bsdcpio, an implementation of the cpio program part of the libarchive project, is susceptible to a directory traversal vulnerability via absolute paths.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.4-3+wheezy1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 3.1.2-11.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.1.2-11.

We recommend that you upgrade your libarchive packages.