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CVE-2019-16680

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Description

An issue was discovered in GNOME file-roller before 3.29.91. It allows a single ./../ path traversal via a filename contained in a TAR archive, possibly overwriting a file during extraction.

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https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4537

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4139-1/

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/57

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00032.html

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/commit/e8fb3e24dae711e4fb0d6777e0016cdda8787bc1

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/commit/57268e51e59b61c9e3125eb0f65551c7084297e2

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1767594

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794337

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-09-21

Updated: 2019-12-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0137

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