Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.703289
Category:	Debian Local Security Checks
Title:	Debian Security Advisory DSA 3289-1 (p7zip - security update)
Summary:	Alexander Cherepanov discovered that;p7zip is susceptible to a directory traversal vulnerability. While extracting an;archive, it will extract symlinks and then follow them if they are referenced in;further entries. This can be exploited by a rogue archive to write;files outside the current directory.
Description:	Summary: Alexander Cherepanov discovered that p7zip is susceptible to a directory traversal vulnerability. While extracting an archive, it will extract symlinks and then follow them if they are referenced in further entries. This can be exploited by a rogue archive to write files outside the current directory. Affected Software/OS: p7zip on Debian Linux Solution: For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 9.20.1~ dfsg.1-4+deb7u1. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 9.20.1~ dfsg.1-4.1+deb8u1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 9.20.1~ dfsg.1-4.2. We recommend that you upgrade your p7zip packages. CVSS Score: 5.8 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-1038 BugTraq ID: 71890 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71890 Debian Security Information: DSA-3289 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3289 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174245.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/173245.html https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774660 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1179505 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/11/2 SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2015:1162 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-07/msg00000.html XForce ISS Database: p7zip-cve20151038-symlink(99970) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99970
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