diffoscope before 77 writes to arbitrary locations on disk based on the contents of an untrusted archive.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - diffoscope before 77 writes to arbitrary locations on disk based on the contents of an untrusted archive.
    (CVE-2017-0359)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

This update for diffoscope to version 85 fixes one issues.

This security issue was fixed :

  - CVE-2017-0359: Prevent write to arbitrary locations     (boo#1025086).

For other changes please see the GIT log.

Update to the latest version, fixes a security issue.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Ximin Luo reports :

[v67] introduced a security hole where diffoscope may write to arbitrary locations on disk depending on the contents of an untrusted archive.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
254032	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-0359	Nessus	Misc.	critical
105740	openSUSE Security Update : diffoscope (openSUSE-2018-19)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
97336	Fedora 24 : diffoscope (2017-33cb46c6b0)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
97334	Fedora 25 : diffoscope (2017-101722eb25)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
97197	FreeBSD : diffoscope -- arbitrary file write (077bbadf-f2f4-11e6-92a7-902b34361349)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	critical

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