Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in fastjar:
Directory traversal vulnerability in the extract_jar function in jartool.c in FastJar 0.98 allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a non-initial pathname component in a filename within a .jar archive, a related issue to CVE-2005-1080. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2006-3619 (CVE-2010-0831).
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The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
Affected
fastjar on Mandriva Linux 2008.0,
Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64,
Mandriva Linux 2009.0,
Mandriva Linux 2009.0/X86_64,
Mandriva Linux 2009.1,
Mandriva Linux 2009.1/X86_64,
Mandriva Linux 2010.0,
Mandriva Linux 2010.0/X86_64
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2005-1080, CVE-2006-3619, CVE-2010-0831 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
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