Comment 9 for bug 1753572

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package busybox - 1:1.27.2-2ubuntu4

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busybox (1:1.27.2-2ubuntu4) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * Fix symlink handling (LP: #1753572)
    - debian/patches/CVE-2011-5325-2.patch: re-enable patch.
    - debian/patches/CVE-2011-5325-3.patch:postpone creation of symlinks
      with "suspicious" targets in archival/libarchive/data_extract_all.c,
      archival/libarchive/unsafe_symlink_target.c, archival/tar.c,
      include/bb_archive.h, testsuite/tar.tests.
    - debian/patches/CVE-2011-5325-4.patch: extract "unsafe" symlinks
      the same way tar/unzip does in archival/cpio.c.
    - debian/patches/CVE-2011-5325-5.patch: fix symlink creation in
      archival/libarchive/get_header_ar.c.

 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Mon, 09 Jul 2018 10:25:24 -0400