Debian Security Update DSA-4967 squashfs-tools - security update

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Etienne Stalmans discovered that unsquashfs in squashfs-tools, the tools to create and extract Squashfs filesystems, does not validate filenames for traversal outside of the destination directory. An attacker can take advantage of this flaw for writing to arbitrary files to the filesystem if a malformed Squashfs image is processed.

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