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USN-1906-1: File Roller vulnerability

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USN-1906-1: File Roller vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
07/18/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/08/2014
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in File Roller 3.6.x before 3.6.4, 3.8.x before 3.8.3, and 3.9.x before 3.9.3, when libarchive is used, allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files via a crafted archive that is not properly handled in a "Keep directory structure" action, related to fr-archive-libarchive.c and fr-window.c.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-file-roller

References

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