CVE-2015-1197 Information

Description

cpio 2.11 when using the –no-absolute-filenames option allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an archive.

Reference

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0080.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:066 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/07/5 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/18/7 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71914 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2906-1 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774669 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-cpio/2015-01/msg00000.html