[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: arj-3.10.22-22.fc21

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-5603
2015-04-05 11:04:02
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Name        : arj
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 3.10.22
Release     : 22.fc21
URL         : http://arj.sourceforge.net/
Summary     : Archiver for .arj files
Description :
This package is an open source version of the arj archiver. It has
been created with the intent to preserve maximum compatibility and
retain the feature set of original ARJ archiver as provided by ARJ
Software, Inc.

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Update Information:

- Added patch from Debian to avoid free on invalid pointer due to a buffer overflow (#1196751, #1207180)
- Added patch from Debian for symlink directory traversal (#1178824)
- Added patch from Debian to fix the directory traversal via //multiple/leading/slash (#1178824)
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Apr  3 2015 Robert Scheck <robert at fedoraproject.org> 3.10.22-22
- Added patch from Debian to avoid free on invalid pointer due to a
  buffer overflow (#1196751, #1207180)
- Added patch from Debian for symlink directory traversal (#1178824)
- Added patch from Debian to fix the directory traversal via
  //multiple/leading/slash (#1178824)
* Sat Feb 21 2015 Till Maas <opensource at till.name> - 3.10.22-21
- Rebuilt for Fedora 23 Change
  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_all_packages_with_position-independent_code
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1178824 - CVE-2015-0556 CVE-2015-0557 arj: two directory traversal flaws
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178824
  [ 2 ] Bug #1207180 - CVE-2015-2782 arj: free on invalid pointer due to to buffer overflow
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1207180
  [ 3 ] Bug #1196751 - arj: buffer overflow write access initiated by a size read from a crafted archive
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196751
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update arj' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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