Archive formats such as .zip files are generally susceptible to
so-called "traversal attacks". This allows an attacker to craft
an archive that writes to unexpected locations of the file system
(e.g., /etc/shadow) if an unspecting root user were to unpack a
malicious archive.
This patch neutralizes absolute paths such as /tmp/moo and deeply
relative paths such as dummy/../../../../../../../../../../tmp/moo
The Debian project requested CVE-2014-9485 be allocated for the
first identified weakness. The fix was incomplete, resulting in a
revised patch applied here. Since there wasn't an updated version
released by Debian with the incomplete fix, I suggest we use this
CVE to identify both issues.
Link: https://security.snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability
Link: https://bugs.debian.org/774321
Link: https://bugs.debian.org/776831
Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9485
Reported-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
Fixed-by: Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debian.org>
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