Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libquazip  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-LIBQUAZIP-652463
  • published27 Jun 2018
  • disclosed25 Jul 2018

Introduced: 27 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-1002209  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

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

QuaZIP before 0.7.6 is vulnerable to directory traversal, allowing attackers to write to arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in a Zip archive entry that is mishandled during extraction. This vulnerability is also known as 'Zip-Slip'.