CVE-2005-1229
Description
From CVE.org
Directory traversal vulnerability in cpio 2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary directories via a .. (dot dot) in a cpio file.
Statement
This is defined and documented behaviour: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=156313
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