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Dzip: directory traversal

Package(s):dzip CVE #(s):
Created:June 6, 2005 Updated:June 8, 2005
Description: Dzip is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack when extracting archives. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by creating a specially crafted archive to extract files to arbitrary locations.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200506-03 2005-06-06
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