Vulnerability CVE-2015-0552
Published: 2015-01-15

Description:
Directory traversal vulnerability in the gcab_folder_extract function in libgcab/gcab-folder.c in gcab 0.4 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via crafted path in a CAB file, as demonstrated by "\tmp\moo."

Type:

CWE-22

 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.4/10
4.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
Partial
Affected software
SUSE -> GCAB 
Opensuse -> Opensuse 
Novell -> Opensuse 
Gnome -> GCAB 

 References:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00018.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/05/7
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774580
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742331
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