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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:           Important: plexus-archiver security update
Advisory ID:        RHSA-2023:6886-01
Product:            Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:       https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6886
Issue date:         2023-11-13
Revision:           01
CVE Names:          CVE-2023-37460
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Summary: 

An update for plexus-archiver is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.




Description:

The Plexus project provides a full software stack for creating and executing software projects. Based on the Plexus container, the applications can utilise component-oriented programming to build modular, reusable components that can easily be assembled and reused. The plexus-archiver component provides functions to create and extract archives.

Security Fix(es):

* plexus-archiver: Arbitrary File Creation in AbstractUnArchiver (CVE-2023-37460)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.


Solution:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258



CVEs:

CVE-2023-37460

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242288