Debian Security Advisory
DSA-4537-1 file-roller -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 28 Sep 2019
- Affected Packages:
- file-roller
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-16680.
- More information:
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It was discovered that file-roller, an archive manager for GNOME, does not properly handle the extraction of archives with a single ./../ in a file path. An attacker able to provide a specially crafted archive for processing can take advantage of this flaw to overwrite files if a user is dragging a specific file or map to a location to extract to.
For the oldstable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 3.22.3-1+deb9u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your file-roller packages.
For the detailed security status of file-roller please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/file-roller