CVE-2015-0552

Published: 15 January 2015

Directory traversal vulnerability in the gcab_folder_extract function in libgcab/gcab-folder.c in gcab 0.4 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via crafted path in a CAB file, as demonstrated by "\tmp\moo."

Priority

Status

Package	Release	Status
gcab Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	lucid	Does not exist
	precise	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Released (0.4-2)
	utopic	Does not exist

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-0552
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Bugs

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774580

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