Dpkg upstream has recently addressed: [1] http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2011 one path traversal issue by unpacking source packages. More issue details from [1]: William Grant discovered that the dpkg-source component of dpkg, the low-level infrastructure for handling the installation and removal of Debian software packages, is vulnerable to path traversal attacks. A specially crafted Debian source package can lead to file modification outside of the destination directory when extracting the package content. References: [2] http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Mar/201 Upstream patches: [3] http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commit;h=2cb3d5d38fbe937280a8875b79a7247ac37a383d [4] http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commit;h=1e84a1bd2c7b175cd15934345af61841a7435eda
This issue affects the version of the dpkg package, as present in Rawhide (older Fedora 11 and Fedora 12 rpm packages installable from Koji are also affected). Please fix.
dpkg-1.15.5.6-4.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dpkg-1.15.5.6-4.fc12
dpkg-1.15.5.6-4.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dpkg-1.15.5.6-4.fc13
dpkg-1.15.5.6-4.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dpkg-1.15.5.6-4.fc11
dpkg-1.15.5.6-4.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
dpkg-1.15.5.6-4.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
dpkg-1.15.5.6-4.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.