{"id":"USN-2549-1","summary":"libarchive vulnerabilities","details":"It was discovered that the libarchive bsdcpio utility extracted absolute\npaths by default without using the --insecure flag, contrary to\nexpectations. If a user or automated system were tricked into extracting\ncpio archives containing absolute paths, a remote attacker may be able to\nwrite to arbitrary files. (CVE-2015-2304)\n\nFabian Yamaguchi discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled certain\ntype conversions. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause\nlibarchive to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only\naffected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2013-0211)\n","modified":"2026-04-22T09:09:47.020736Z","published":"2015-03-25T14:36:28Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2304"],"upstream":["CVE-2013-0211","CVE-2015-2304","UBUNTU-CVE-2013-0211","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2304"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2549-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-0211"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2304"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"libarchive","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/libarchive@3.1.2-7ubuntu2.1?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.1.2-7ubuntu2.1"}]}],"versions":["3.1.2-5ubuntu1","3.1.2-7ubuntu1","3.1.2-7ubuntu2"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_name":"bsdcpio","binary_version":"3.1.2-7ubuntu2.1"},{"binary_name":"bsdtar","binary_version":"3.1.2-7ubuntu2.1"},{"binary_name":"libarchive13","binary_version":"3.1.2-7ubuntu2.1"}]},"database_specific":{"cves_map":{"cves":[{"id":"CVE-2015-2304","severity":[{"score":"medium","type":"Ubuntu"}]}],"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"},"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2549-1.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}