CVE-2015-2304 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2015-2304?

CVE-2015-2304 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 15 Mar 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in bsdcpio in libarchive 3.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a full pathname in an archive.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-2304?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Libarchive Libarchive, Opensuse Opensuse.

How do I fix CVE-2015-2304?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2015-2304 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-2304 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-2304, DLA-166-1, DSA-3180-1, GHSA-fg4c-3cxq-4rf3, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2304.