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unzip: directory traversal vulnerability
| Package(s): | unzip | CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0282 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Created: | July 1, 2003 | Updated: | November 13, 2003 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description: | A vulnerabilitiy in unzip version 5.50 and earlier allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction by placing invalid (non-printable) characters between two "." characters. These non-printable characters are filtered, resulting in a ".." sequence. See the full advisory for further information. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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