[ MDVSA-2015:157 ] libarchive

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 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory                         MDVSA-2015:157
 http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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 Package : libarchive
 Date    : March 29, 2015
 Affected: Business Server 1.0, Business Server 2.0
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 Problem Description:

 Updated libarchive packages fix security vulnerability:
 
 Alexander Cherepanov discovered that bsdcpio, an implementation of
 the cpio program part of the libarchive project, is susceptible to
 a directory traversal vulnerability via absolute paths (CVE-2015-2304).
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 References:

 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2304
 http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0106.html
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