DSA-4227-1 plexus-archiver -- security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-1002200  

Danny Grander discovered a directory traversal flaw in plexus-archiver, an Archiver plugin for the Plexus compiler system, allowing an attacker to overwrite any file writable by the extracting user via a specially crafted Zip archive. For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2-1+deb8u1. For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.2-1+deb9u1. We recommend that you upgrade your plexus-archiver packages. For the detailed security status of plexus-archiver please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/plexus-archiver

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4227-1 plexus-archiver -- security update

Date Reported:
12 Jun 2018
Affected Packages:
plexus-archiver
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 900953.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-1002200.
More information:

Danny Grander discovered a directory traversal flaw in plexus-archiver, an Archiver plugin for the Plexus compiler system, allowing an attacker to overwrite any file writable by the extracting user via a specially crafted Zip archive.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2-1+deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.2-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your plexus-archiver packages.

For the detailed security status of plexus-archiver please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/plexus-archiver