DSA-574-1 cabextract -- missing directory sanitising

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-574-1 cabextract -- missing directory sanitising

Date Reported:

28 Oct 2004

Affected Packages:

cabextract

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 277522.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0916.

More information:

The upstream developers discovered a problem in cabextract, a tool to extract cabinet files. The program was able to overwrite files in upper directories. This could lead an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.2-2b.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your cabextract package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_0.2-2b.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_0.2-2b.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_0.2.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_0.2-2b_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_0.2-2b_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_0.2-2b_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_0.2-2b_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_0.2-2b_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_0.2-2b_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_0.2-2b_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_0.2-2b_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_0.2-2b_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_0.2-2b_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_0.2-2b_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.