Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package lrzsz (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-LRZSZ-20548919
- published7 Oct 2026
- disclosed6 Oct 2026
Introduced: 6 Oct 2026
NewCVE-2026-105840 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream lrzsz package and not the lrzsz package as distributed by RHEL.
lrzsz before 0.13.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the lrz receive utility's restricted mode that allows malicious ZMODEM senders to write files outside the current directory using absolute pathnames. Because checkpath() in src/lrz.c only rejects '../' sequences unless built with --enable-pubdir, attackers can send files named with absolute paths to overwrite any file writable by the receiving user.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2546590
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-105840
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:86056
- https://ohse.de/uwe/software/lrzsz.html
- https://ohse.de/uwe/software/lrzsz/NEWS-0.13.0.html
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/lrzsz-before-0.13.0-path-traversal-via-lrz-restricted-mode-checkpath