Secunia Security Advisory - UnixWare has issued an update for cpio. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause files to be unpacked to arbitrary locations on a user's system.
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TITLE:
UnixWare update for cpio
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA16495
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16495/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
System access
WHERE:
>From remote
OPERATING SYSTEM:
UnixWare 7.x.x
http://secunia.com/product/136/
DESCRIPTION:
UnixWare has issued an update for cpio. This fixes a vulnerability,
which can be exploited by malicious people to cause files to be
unpacked to arbitrary locations on a user's system.
For more information:
SA7745
This update also fixes a race condition when setting file
permissions.
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.
UnixWare 7.1.4:
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.32/erg712854.uw714.pkg.Z
a12807ae0a69d88a3b4f0ed7a014f3ef
UnixWare 7.1.3:
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.32/erg712854.uw713.pkg.Z
0b514e72f094c21d8c49b359d05e8e7e
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.32/SCOSA-2005.32.txt
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA7745:
http://secunia.com/advisories/7745/
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