CVE-2014-9983

NameCVE-2014-9983
DescriptionDirectory Traversal exists in RAR 4.x and 5.x because an unpack operation follows any symlinks, including symlinks contained in the archive. This allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted archive.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs774172

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
rar (PTS)jessie/non-free2:4.2.0+dfsg.1-0.1vulnerable
stretch/non-free2:6.23-1~deb9u1fixed
buster/non-free (security), buster/non-free2:6.23-1~deb10u1fixed
bullseye/non-free2:6.23-1~deb11u1fixed
bookworm/non-free2:6.23-1~deb12u1fixed
trixie/non-free, sid/non-free2:7.10~b1-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
rarsource(unstable)2:5.3.b2-1774172

Notes

[jessie] - rar <no-dsa> (Non-free not supported)
[wheezy] - rar <no-dsa> (Non-free not supported)
[squeeze] - rar <no-dsa> (Not fixed upstream and license does not allow modification)
Version 5.21 upstream changes behaviour: by default rar skips symbolic links
symbolic links with absolute paths in link target when extracting.

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