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Fedora 32: FEDORA-2020-e2fe8f0165 Critical: Ark File Installation Risk

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Calendar Grey August 12, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A patch has been released for ark in Fedora 32 to remedy CVE-2020-16116. Discover the nuances of archive handling and strategies for risk reduction.
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

[ 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-e2fe8f0165' 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 32
Version: 20.04.3
Release: 3.fc32
Summary: Archive manager

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