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A libarchive security update has been released for Debian



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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3180-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Alessandro Ghedini
March 05, 2015 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : libarchive
CVE ID : no yet available
Debian Bug : 778266

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.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
  DSA 3180-1: libarchive security update