[ANNOUNCEMENT] [SECURITY] Updated: p7zip 15.09-2

Tony Kelman tony@kelman.net
Sat Feb 13 10:16:00 GMT 2016


Version 15.09-2 of the package p7zip is now available in the Cygwin
distribution. This is a security bugfix.

CHANGES
- Includes patch to fix CVE-2015-1038, ref
  https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2016-01/msg00055.html


DESCRIPTION
p7zip is the Unix port of 7-Zip, a file archiver that archives with
very high compression ratios. It supports packing/unpacking 7z, zip, gzip
bzip2, xz, tar, and wim archives. It supports unpacking of arj, cab, chm,
cpio, dmg, hfs, lzh, lzma, wim, xar, z, nsis, deb, rpm, msi, udf, iso, ntfs,
fat, vhd, and mbr archives. This version does NOT support rar archives.

HOMEPAGE
https://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip and http://www.7-zip.org

Best,
Tony Kelman


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