Mageia alert MGASA-2015-0086 (cabextract)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2015-0086: Updated cabextract packages fix CVE-2015-2060 
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Thu, 26 Feb 2015 09:27:16 +0100
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MGASA-2015-0086 - Updated cabextract packages fix CVE-2015-2060

Publication date: 26 Feb 2015
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0086.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 4
CVE: CVE-2015-2060

Description:
A directory traversal issue in cabextract allows writing to locations outside
of the current working directory, when extracting a crafted cab file that
encodes the filenames in a certain manner (CVE-2015-2060).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15318
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/18/3
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/23/24
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2060

SRPMS:
- 4/core/cabextract-1.5-1.1.mga4