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Debian: CVE-2017-8314: kodi, xbmc -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2017-8314: kodi, xbmc -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
05/23/2017
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/19/2019
Modified
02/24/2020

Description

Directory Traversal in Zip Extraction built-in function in Kodi 17.1 and earlier allows arbitrary file write on disk via a Zip file as subtitles.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-kodi
  • debian-upgrade-xbmc

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