SUSE-SU-2018:0862-1: unrar&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise

Vulnerability summary

SUSE-SU-2018:0862-1 is a vulnerability in unrar&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise with no CVSS score yet.

Timeline

1. 03-04-2018
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 04-02-2026
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Security update for unrar This update for unrar to version 5.6.1 fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-12938: Prevent remote attackers to bypass a directory-traversal protection mechanism via vectors involving a symlink to the . directory, a symlink to the .. directory, and a regular file (bsc#1054038). - CVE-2017-12940: Prevent out-of-bounds read in the EncodeFileName::Decode call within the Archive::ReadHeader15 function (bsc#1054038). - CVE-2017-12941: Prevent an out-of-bounds read in the Unpack::Unpack20 function (bsc#1054038). - CVE-2017-12942: Prevent a buffer overflow in the Unpack::LongLZ function (bsc#1054038). These non-security issues were fixed: - Added extraction support for .LZ archives created by Lzip compressor - Enable unpacking of files in ZIP archives compressed with XZ algorithm and encrypted with AES - Added support for PAX extended headers inside of TAR archive - If RAR recovery volumes (.rev files) are present in the same folder as usual RAR volumes, archive test command verifies .rev contents after completing testing .rar files - By default unrar skips symbolic links with absolute paths in link target when extracting unless -ola command line switch is specified - Added support for AES-NI CPU instructions - Support for a new RAR 5.0 archiving format - Wildcard exclusion mask for folders - Added libunrar* and libunrar*-devel subpackages (bsc#513804) - Prevent conditional jumps depending on uninitialised values (bsc#1046882)

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