Debian DSA-2142-1 : dpkg - directory traversal

Jakub Wilk discovered that the dpkg-source component of dpkg, the Debian package management system, doesn't correctly handle paths in patches of source packages, which could make it traverse directories. Raphael Hertzog additionally discovered that symbolic links in the .pc directory are followed...

[SECURITY] [DSA-2142-1] New dpkg packages fix directory traversal

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2142-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Raphael Geissert January 06, 2011 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...