vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2021-23177: libarchive -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
May 2, 2022
Added
May 2, 2022
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

An improper link resolution flaw while extracting an archive can lead to changing the access control list (ACL) of the target of the link. An attacker may provide a malicious archive to a victim user, who would trigger this flaw when trying to extract the archive. A local attacker may use this flaw to change the ACL of a file on the system and gain more privileges.

Solution

debian-upgrade-libarchive
Title
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