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 Message 934 
 Vince Coen to mark lewis 
 won't run 
 12 Jun 18 14:04:58 
 
Hello mark!

Monday June 11 2018 11:45, you wrote to me:


 >  On 2018 Jun 11 00:03:02, you wrote to Dallas Hinton:

 VC>> Arr, just spotted a wee problem i.e., path for them so you will
 VC>> need to extract without path i.e., unzip -j templates.zip and
 VC>> this gives me

 > FWIW: this defect in zip and other archivers is known as "Zip-Slip"
 > and it is a directory traversal flaw that may allow a crafted archive
 > to overwrite system files with ones of the crafter's own making...

Nope not a defect just me in forgetting to remove path info when archiving as
it does the full path and not the path from current directory.

Does me every time :(

Vince

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