{"id":"MGASA-2015-0150","summary":"Updated arj packages fix security vulnerabilities","details":"Updated arj package fixes security vulnerabilities:\n\nARJ follows symlinks when unpacking stuff, even the symlinks that were created\nduring the same unpack process, making it vulnerable to a directory traversal\n(CVE-2015-0556).\n\nTo protect from directory traversals, ARJ strips leading slash from the path\nwhen unpacking, but this protection can be easily bypassed by adding more than\none leading slash to the path (CVE-2015-0557).\n\nARJ is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when processing a specially crafted arj\nfile (CVE-2015-2782).\n","modified":"2026-04-16T01:47:37.821986133Z","published":"2015-04-15T09:01:28Z","upstream":["CVE-2015-0556","CVE-2015-0557","CVE-2015-2782"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0150.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15586"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3213"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"arj","ecosystem":"Mageia:4","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/arj?arch=source&distro=mageia-4"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.10.22-9.mga4"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0150.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}