Debian DLA-166-1 : libarchive security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 82150

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Alexander Cherepanov discovered that bsdcpio, an implementation of the 'cpio' program part of the libarchive project, is susceptible to a directory traversal vulnerability via absolute paths.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 82150

File Name: debian_DLA-166.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 3/26/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libarchive-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libarchive1, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bsdcpio, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bsdtar

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 3/7/2015

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