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DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9983

Directory Traversal exists in RAR 4.x and 5.x because an unpack operation follows any symlinks, including symlinks contained in the archive. This allo...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

Directory Traversal exists in RAR 4.x and 5.x because an unpack operation follows any symlinks, including symlinks contained in the archive. This allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted archive.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 rar

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2:5.3.b2-1"}]}]

Debian:13 rar

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2:5.3.b2-1"}]}]

Debian:14 rar

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2:5.3.b2-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org