Link Following The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package pax  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-PAX-285624
  • published21 Jan 2015
  • disclosed21 Jan 2015

Introduced: 21 Jan 2015

CVE-2015-1194  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pax package and not the pax package as distributed by Ubuntu.

pax 1:20140703 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in an archive.