GLSA 200506-03: Dzip: Directory traversal vulnerability

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Dzip: Directory traversal vulnerability
Date:	06/06/2005
Bugs:	#93079
ID:	200506-03

Synopsis

Dzip is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack.

Background

Dzip is a compressor and uncompressor especially made for demo recordings of id's Quake.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
games-util/dzip	< 2.9-r1	>= 2.9-r1	All supported architectures

Description

Dzip is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack when extracting archives.

Impact

An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by creating a specially crafted archive to extract files to arbitrary locations.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Dzip users should upgrade to the latest available version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=games-utils/dzip-2.9-r1"

References

CVE-2005-1874

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200506-03.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.