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Ubuntu: USN-4085-1 (CVE-2019-14452): Sigil vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-4085-1 (CVE-2019-14452): Sigil vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
07/31/2019
Created
08/02/2019
Added
08/02/2019
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

Sigil before 0.9.16 is vulnerable to a directory traversal, allowing attackers to write arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in a ZIP archive entry that is mishandled during extraction.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-sigil
  • ubuntu-upgrade-sigil-data

References

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