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Rocky Linux 8 : file-roller (RLSA-2021:4179)

low Nessus Plugin ID 184667

Synopsis

The remote Rocky Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2021:4179 advisory.

 - fr-archive-libarchive.c in GNOME file-roller through 3.38.0, as used by GNOME Shell and other software, allows Directory Traversal during extraction because it lacks a check of whether a file's parent is a symlink in certain complex situations. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-11736. (CVE-2020-36314)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected file-roller, file-roller-debuginfo and / or file-roller-debugsource packages.

See Also

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2021:4179

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1947534

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 184667

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2021-4179.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Published: 11/6/2023

Updated: 11/6/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-36314

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.9

Temporal Score: 3.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:file-roller, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:file-roller-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:file-roller-debugsource, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/RockyLinux/release, Host/RockyLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/9/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/7/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-36314