{"id":"CVE-2014-1197","aliases":["MGASA-2015-0080"],"status":"published","title":"Updated cpio package fixes security vulnerability","description":"In GNU Cpio 2.11, the --no-absolute-filenames option limits extracting\ncontents of an archive to be strictly inside a current directory. However,\nit can be bypassed with symlinks. While extracting an archive, it will\nextract symlinks and then follow them if they are referenced in further\nentries. This can be exploited by a rogue archive to write files outside\nthe current directory (CVE-2015-1197).","facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":true},"published":"2015-02-19T14:43:07Z","modified":"2026-04-16T06:25:24Z","fixes":[{"ecosystem":"Mageia:4","package":"cpio","fixed_in":["2.11-6.3.mga4"],"sources":["osv"]}],"affected":[{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Mageia:4","package":"cpio","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.11-6.3.mga4"}]}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0080.html","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15308","tags":["report"]},{"url":"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774669","tags":["report"]}],"sources":{"osv":[{"id":"MGASA-2015-0080","title":"Updated cpio package fixes security vulnerability","description":"In GNU Cpio 2.11, the --no-absolute-filenames option limits extracting\ncontents of an archive to be strictly inside a current directory. However,\nit can be bypassed with symlinks. While extracting an archive, it will\nextract symlinks and then follow them if they are referenced in further\nentries. This can be exploited by a rogue archive to write files outside\nthe current directory (CVE-2015-1197).\n","status":"published","published":"2015-02-19T14:43:07Z","modified":"2026-04-16T06:25:24.128836352Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:49:39.488462Z"}]}}