vulnerability

SUSE: CVE-2021-23177: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Aug 23, 2022
Added
Oct 26, 2022
Modified
Jan 28, 2025

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.

Solutions

suse-upgrade-bsdtarsuse-upgrade-libarchive-develsuse-upgrade-libarchive13suse-upgrade-libarchive13-32bit
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