CVE-2015-1197 (GCVE-0-2015-1197)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2015-02-19 00:00
Modified
2026-10-14 21:10
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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