FreeBSD Security Advisory - FreeBSD-SA-16:22.libarchive

Discussion in 'News Aggregator' started by Packet Storm, 2 Jun 2016.

  1. Packet Storm

    Packet Storm Guest

    FreeBSD Security Advisory - The cpio(1) tool from the libarchive(3) bundle is vulnerable to a directory traversal problem via absolute paths in an archive file. A malicious archive file being unpacked can overwrite an arbitrary file on a filesystem, if the owner of the cpio process has write access to it.

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