Vigil@nce - GNOME gnome-autoar: directory traversal via autoar-extractor.c
April 2021 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: openSUSE Leap, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop,
SLES, Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: data creation/edition.
Provenance: internet client.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 11/02/2021.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories via autoar-extractor.c of
GNOME gnome-autoar, in order to create a file outside the service
root path.
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