{"id":"MGASA-2015-0080","summary":"Updated cpio package fixes security vulnerability","details":"In GNU Cpio 2.11, the --no-absolute-filenames option limits extracting\ncontents of an archive to be strictly inside a current directory. However,\nit can be bypassed with symlinks. While extracting an archive, it will\nextract symlinks and then follow them if they are referenced in further\nentries. This can be exploited by a rogue archive to write files outside\nthe current directory (CVE-2015-1197).\n","modified":"2026-04-16T06:25:24.128836352Z","published":"2015-02-19T14:43:07Z","upstream":["CVE-2014-1197"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0080.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15308"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774669"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"cpio","ecosystem":"Mageia:4","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/cpio?arch=source&distro=mageia-4"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.11-6.3.mga4"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0080.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}