Bug 2387646

Summary:	CVE-2025-55188 advancecomp: 7-Zip Symbolic Link Extraction Vulnerability [epel-9]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Michal Findra <mfindra>
Component:	advancecomp	Assignee:	Ben Beasley <code>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	epel9	CC:	code, i, tdawson
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Description Michal Findra 2025-08-11 15:15:46 UTC

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Comment 1 Ben Beasley 2025-08-12 04:06:15 UTC

Since advancecomp supports only recompressing zip files via the advzip tool, not extracting them, the code copied from 7-Zip[1] only covers the parts of the zipfile format dealing with compression. There is no support for or code related to extracting archive contents or manipulating symbolic links. Therefore, I think that it must be unaffected by this particular CVE.

[1] https://github.com/amadvance/advancecomp/tree/v2.6/7z