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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1686-1 freedink-dfarc -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

24 Feb 2019

Affected Packages:

freedink-dfarc

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-0496.

More information:

Sylvain Beucler and Dan Walma discovered several directory traversal issues in DFArc, a frontend and extensions manager for the Dink Smallwood game, allowing an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files on the user's system.

For Debian 8 Jessie, this problem has been fixed in version 3.12-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your freedink-dfarc packages.

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