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Ubuntu 13.04: USN-1906-1 Moderate: File Roller File Threat

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Calendar Grey July 16, 2013
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Ubuntu Security Announcement USN-1906-2 discusses a vulnerability in file-roller that could result in unintended file generation or replacement.
File Roller could be made to create or overwrite files.

Summary

File Roller could be made to create or overwrite files.

Software Description:

- file-roller: archive manager for GNOME

Details:

Yorick Koster discovered that File Roller incorrectly sanitized paths. If a

user were tricked into extracting a specially-crafted archive, an attacker

could create and overwrite files outside of the extraction directory.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate ubuntu file creation file roller

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 13.04:
  file-roller                     3.6.3-1ubuntu4.1

Ubuntu 12.10:
  file-roller                     3.6.1.1-0ubuntu1.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1906-1

CVE-2013-4668

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July 16, 2013

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate ubuntu file creation file roller

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/3.6.3-1ubuntu4.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/3.6.1.1-0ubuntu1.2

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