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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-11736: Moderate: file-roller security update (ALSA-2020-4820)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-11736: Moderate: file-roller security update (ALSA-2020-4820)

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/13/2020
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
05/04/2022

Description

fr-archive-libarchive.c in GNOME file-roller through 3.36.1 allows Directory Traversal during extraction because it lacks a check of whether a file's parent is a symlink to a directory outside of the intended extraction location.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-file-roller

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