Bug 1192482 – CVE-2015-2304 libarchive: directory traversal in bsdcpio

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Bug 1192482 - (CVE-2015-2304) CVE-2015-2304 libarchive: directory traversal in bsdcpio

Summary:	CVE-2015-2304 libarchive: directory traversal in bsdcpio

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2015-2304

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity low
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Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1192488 1192489
Blocks:	1225846
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Reported:	2015-02-13 08:48 EST by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified:	2016-06-23 22:25 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	libarchive 3.2.0
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Last Closed:	2015-08-22 02:21:22 EDT
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Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-02-13 08:48:49 EST

It was reported [1] that bsdcpio tool from libarchive bundle is susceptible to a directory traversal vulnerability via absolute paths.

Initial discussion:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/07/5

Upstream report:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/libarchive-discuss/dN9y1VvE1Qk/Z9uerigjQn0J

Proposed (minimal) fix (non-Windows):
https://groups.google.com/group/libarchive-discuss/attach/a78932ecb50340ae/0001-Quick-n-dirty-fix-for-bsdcpio-directory-traversal-vu.patch?part=0.1

Discussion is ongoing, no upstream fix is available yet.

[1]: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/145

Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-02-13 09:05:55 EST

Created libarchive tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1192488]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1192489]

Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2015-08-22 02:21:10 EDT

Statement:

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

Comment 4 Doran Moppert 2016-06-23 22:25:44 EDT

Upstream patch:

    https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/5935715

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