vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-4733-2: GNOME Autoar regression

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N)
Published
Mar 8, 2021
Added
Mar 9, 2021
Modified
Feb 19, 2025

Description


USN-4733-1 fixed a vulnerability in GNOME Autoar. The upstream fix introduced a regression when extracting archives containing directories. This update fixes the problem.


Original advisory details:


Yiğit Can Yılmaz discovered that GNOME Autoar could extract files outside of the intended directory. If a user were tricked into extracting a specially crafted archive, a remote attacker could create files in arbitrary locations, possibly leading to code execution.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-libgnome-autoar-0-0ubuntu-upgrade-libgnome-autoar-gtk-0-0
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