openbsd-ports/archivers/cabextract/pkg/DESCR
robert a44a74380c SECURITY:
upgrade to 1.1;
A directory-traversal issue exists in cabextract
that could overwrite any file on the system when extracting
a malicious cab file.

from maintainer; the issue has also been reported by matthieu@
2004-10-23 15:54:42 +00:00

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cabextract is Free Software for extracting Microsoft cabinet files, also called
.CAB files, on UNIX or UNIX-like systems. cabextract is distributed under the
GPL license. It is based on the portable LGPL libmspack library. cabextract
supports all special features and all compression formats of Microsoft cabinet
files.