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cpio — security advisory
cpio 2.11, when using the --no-absolute-filenames option, allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an archive.
- Products
- cpio
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.11+dfsg-4.1
- CVEs
- CVE-2015-1197
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 13:01 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
cpio 2.11, when using the --no-absolute-filenames option, allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an archive.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1197
cpio
Fixed versions: 2.11+dfsg-4.1
cpio
Fixed versions: 2.11+dfsg-4.1
cpio
Fixed versions: 2.11+dfsg-4.1
Complete source record
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