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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:

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