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:
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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