USN-4654-1: PEAR vulnerabilities

1 December 2020

PEAR could be made to run programs as an administrator.

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It was discovered that PEAR incorrectly sanitized filenames. A remote
attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

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The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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