CVE-2020-36314

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-36314
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-04-07 12:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:22:00 UTC
Descriptionfr-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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-59

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Application Gnome File-roller All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2020-36314: GNOME Archive Manager Traversal Attack (#108) · Issues · GNOME / File Roller · GitLab MISC gitlab.gnome.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: file-roller-3.38.0-3.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: file-roller-3.38.0-3.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
libarchive: Skip files with symlinks in parents (e970f496) · Commits · GNOME / File Roller · GitLab MISC gitlab.gnome.org
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Legacy QID Mappings

  • 198343 Ubuntu Security Notification for File Roller vulnerability (USN-4927-1)
  • 239840 Red Hat Update for file-roller (RHSA-2021:4179)
  • 281340 Fedora Security Update for file (FEDORA-2021-7109d72f07)
  • 296059 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 36.0.1.101.2 Missing (CPUJUL2021)
  • 296060 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 37.0.1.101.1 Missing (CPUJUL2021)
  • 501549 Alpine Linux Security Update for file-roller
  • 671570 EulerOS Security Update for file-roller (EulerOS-SA-2022-1530)
  • 671720 EulerOS Security Update for file-roller (EulerOS-SA-2022-1717)
  • 940277 AlmaLinux Security Update for file-roller (ALSA-2021:4179)
  • 960341 Rocky Linux Security Update for file-roller (RLSA-2021:4179)
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