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Microsoft cabarc directory traversal

From: Jelmer (jkuperusplanet.nl)
Date: Tue Oct 12 2004 - 08:56:35 CDT


Description:

Cabarc is a command line tool to create and extract cabinet files (.cab) it
is included in the Windows Support Tools package
It is subject to a directory traversal bug similar to those found in unzip,
unarj etc..

Technical Details:

..\file fails

../file defeats the protection

Demonstration:

http://62.131.86.111/security/cabarc/demo.cab

Risk : low