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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2021-4179 Low Severity File Roller Issue

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Calendar Grey November 9, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 has released an update for file-roller addressing a minor vulnerability relating to directory traversal. For additional information, click here.
An update for file-roller is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

File Roller is an application for creating and viewing archives files, such as tar or zip files.
Security Fix(es):
* file-roller: directory traversal via directory symlink pointing outside of the target directory (incomplete fix for CVE-2020-11736) (CVE-2020-36314)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory directory traversal low severity red hat enterprise linux file roller

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-36314 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#low https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.5_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: file-roller-3.28.1-4.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: file-roller-3.28.1-4.el8.aarch64.rpm file-roller-debuginfo-3.28.1-4.el8.aarch64.rpm file-roller-debugsource-3.28.1-4.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: file-roller-3.28.1-4.el8.ppc64le.rpm file-roller-debuginfo-3.28.1-4.el8.ppc64le.rpm file-roller-debugsource-3.28.1-4.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: file-roller-3.28.1-4.el8.s390x.rpm file-roller-debuginfo-3.28.1-4.el8.s390x.rpm file-roller-debugsource-3.28.1-4.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: file-roller-3.28.1-4.el8.x86_64.rpm file-roller-debuginfo-3.28.1-4.el8.x86_64.rpm file-roller-debugsource-3.28.1-4.el8.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:4179-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4179
Issue date: 2021-11-09

Topic

An update for file-roller is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory directory traversal low severity red hat enterprise linux file roller

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1947534 - CVE-2020-36314 file-roller: directory traversal via directory symlink pointing outside of the target directory (incomplete fix for CVE-2020-11736)

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