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Unscored USN-2549-1 2 CVEs

libarchive vulnerabilities

Published Mar 25, 2015 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

It was discovered that the libarchive bsdcpio utility extracted absolute
paths by default without using the --insecure flag, contrary to
expectations. If a user or automated system were tricked into extracting
cpio archives containing absolute paths, a remote attacker may be able to
write to arbitrary files. (CVE-2015-2304)

Fabian Yamaguchi discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled certain
type conversions. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause
libarchive to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2013-0211)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS libarchive 3.1.2-7ubuntu2.1

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2013-0211

    Integer signedness error in the archive_write_zip_data function in archive_write_set_format_zip.c in libarchive 3.1.2 a…

    libarchive Debian
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2015-2304

    Absolute path traversal vulnerability in bsdcpio in libarchive 3.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to write to ar…

    libarchive libarchive Debian Ubuntu

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-0211
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2304