Vigil@nce - GNOME File-roller: directory traversal via TAR Archive
November 2019 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/computer-vulnerability
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Debian, Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: data reading.
Provenance: internet client.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 25/09/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories via TAR Archive of GNOME
File-roller, in order to read a file outside the service root path.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/GNOME-File-roller-directory-traversal-via-TAR-Archive-30409