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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: USN-3074-1 Critical File Roller File Deletion Risk

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Calendar Grey September 8, 2016
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Enhance your Ubuntu installation by upgrading to address the File Roller security flaw that may cause unintended file removal.
File Roller could be made to delete files.

Summary

File Roller could be made to delete files.

Software Description:

- file-roller: archive manager for GNOME

Details:

It was discovered that File Roller incorrectly handled symlinks. If a user were

tricked into extracting a specially-crafted archive, an attacker could delete

files outside of the extraction directory.

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Topics Covered

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  file-roller                     3.16.5-0ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  file-roller                     3.10.2.1-0ubuntu4.2

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3074-1

CVE-2016-7162, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/+bug/1171236

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September 08, 2016

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical ubuntu file deletion file roller

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/3.16.5-0ubuntu1.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/3.10.2.1-0ubuntu4.2

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