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Fedora 31 Ark Security Advisory FEDORA-2020-cac5ae9b6e: Moderate DoS Risk

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Calendar Grey August 8, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A crucial patch for ark rectifies vulnerabilities that permitted harmful archives to compromise Fedora 31 systems. Discover further details about the remedy.
Security update for CVE-2020-16116, https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20200730-1.txt

Summary

Ark is a program for managing various archive formats.

Archives can be viewed, extracted, created and modified from within Ark.

The program can handle various formats such as tar, gzip, bzip2, zip,

rar and lha (if appropriate command-line programs are installed).

Security update for CVE-2020-16116,

https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20200730-1.txt

* Fri Jul 31 2020 Rex Dieter - 20.04.3-3

- backport security fix for CVE-2020-16116

* Mon Jul 27 2020 Fedora Release Engineering - 20.04.3-2

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_33_Mass_Rebuild

* Fri Jul 10 2020 Rex Dieter - 20.04.3-1

- 20.04.3

* Fri Jun 12 2020 Rex Dieter - 20.04.2-1

- 20.04.2

* Wed May 27 2020 Rex Dieter - 20.04.1-1

- 20.04.1

* Sat Mar 7 2020 Rex Dieter - 19.12.3-1

- 19.12.3

* Tue Feb 4 2020 Rex Dieter - 19.12.2-1

- 19.12.2

* Fri Jan 31 2020 Rex Dieter - 19.12.1-1

- 19.12.1

* Tue Jan 28 2020 Fedora Release Engineering - 19.08.3-2

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_32_Mass_Rebuild

* Tue Nov 12 2019 Rex Dieter - 19.08.3-1

- 19.08.3

* Thu Oct 17 2019 Rex Dieter - 19.08.2-1

- 19.08.2

* Fri Oct 4 2019 Rex Dieter - 19.08.1-1

- 19.08.1

[ 1 ] Bug #1862464 - CVE-2020-16116 ark: maliciously crafted archive can install files anywhere in the user's home directory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1862464

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-cac5ae9b6e' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 31
Version: 20.04.3
Release: 3.fc31
Summary: Archive manager

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