Vulnerability Bulletins

DSA-3915 ruby-mixlib-archive - security update

   
Affected software Debian
 
It was discovered that ruby-mixlib-archive, a Chef Softwares libraryused to handle various archive formats, was vulnerable to a directorytraversal attack. This allowed attackers to overwrite arbitrary filesby using a malicious tar archive containing ".." in its entries.

More info:

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3915