CVE-2021-28650

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-28650
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-03-17 06:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:32:00 UTC
Descriptionautoar-extractor.c in GNOME gnome-autoar before 0.3.1, as used by GNOME Shell, Nautilus, 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-2020-36241.

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 Gnome-autoar All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
GNOME Autoar: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code (GLSA 202105-10) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: glib2-2.67.6-2.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
extractor: Do not allow symlink in parents (8109c368) · Commits · GNOME / gnome-autoar · GitLab MISC gitlab.gnome.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: glib2-2.67.6-2.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159499 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for GNOME (ELSA-2021-4381)
  • 183040 Debian Security Update for gnome-autoar (CVE-2021-28650)
  • 198354 Ubuntu Security Notification for GNOME Autoar vulnerability (USN-4937-1)
  • 239811 Red Hat Update for gnome security (RHSA-2021:4381)
  • 281465 Fedora Security Update for adwaita (FEDORA-2021-303f6623fa)
  • 296067 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 33.94.0 Missing (CPUAPR2021)
  • 501564 Alpine Linux Security Update for gnome-autoar
  • 670351 EulerOS Security Update for gnome-autoar (EulerOS-SA-2021-1873)
  • 710105 Gentoo Linux GNOME Autoar User-assisted execution of arbitrary code vulnerability (GLSA 202105-10)
  • 940070 AlmaLinux Security Update for GNOME (ALSA-2021:4381)
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