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