CVE-2015-0557

Open-source ARJ archiver 3.10.22 does not properly remove leading slashes from paths, which allows remote attackers to conduct absolute path traversal attacks and write to arbitrary files via multiple leading slashes in a path in an ARJ archive.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.8 Medium

Status

Modified - security@debian.org

Published

2015-04-08

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-22

Affected products

• Arj Archiver (Arj Software)
• Fedora (Fedoraproject)

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154518.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154605.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155011.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3213
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:201
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/03/5
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/05/9
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71895
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774435
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-15