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Mageia: 2021-0311 Moderate: File-Roller Path Traversal Security Issue

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Calendar Grey July 4, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Revised file-roller distributions rectify a directory traversal vulnerability in Mageia - July 4, 2021 advisory particulars are provided.
Updated file-roller package fixes security vulnerability: A path traversal vulnerability was found in file-roller due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-11736

Summary

Updated file-roller package fixes security vulnerability:
A path traversal vulnerability was found in file-roller due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-11736. It may still be possible to extract files outside of the intended directory in case of malicious archives containing symbolic links. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity and system availability (CVE-2020-36314).
Also, the patch for CVE-2020-11736 was not applied correctly in the previous update for Mageia 7 (MGASA-2020-0218). This has been corrected.

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29006

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/6KJBZVCHQ4SSX2JAJZVJ5J4P3GEMXJ75/

- https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0218.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-36314

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory data integrity path traversal file-roller Mageia system availability

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/file-roller-3.38.0-1.1.mga8

- 7/core/file-roller-3.32.1-2.2.mga7

Publication date: 04 Jul 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0311.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-36314

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory data integrity path traversal file-roller Mageia system availability

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