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cabextract -- insecure directory handling

Description:

cabextract has insufficient checks for file names that contain ../. This can cause files to be extracted to the parent directory.

References:

Affects:

portaudit: cabextract -- insecure directory handling

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>